Sandblasting, building exterior · Louisiana

The Foust Group, Coating Services

Gonzales, LA · ~169 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Foust Group, Coating Services runs at 7% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sandblasting, building exterior workplace, earning a grade A.

The Foust Group, Coating Services: 0.2 TCR = 7% of Sandblasting, building exterior BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Foust Group, Coating Services safety composite

The Foust Group, Coating Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

The Foust Group, Coating Services: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

The Foust Group, Coating Services's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Gonzales, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 7% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/53
  • PHOTO TNT Crane & Rigging …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TNT Crane & Rigging - San Antonio Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Foust Group, Coating Services in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows The Foust Group, Coating Services averages 0.2 TCR (7% of the Sandblasting, building exterior BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

The Foust Group, Coating Services TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2022=0.6 · BLS 2.8

Where The Foust Group, Coating Services falls in its industry

1,634 Sandblasting, building exterio establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 53 Sandblasting, building exterio employers in Louisiana.

The Foust Group, Coating Services (169 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate The Foust Group, Coating Services
The Foust Group, Coating Services (169 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

The Foust Group, Coating Services has more employees than the Sandblasting, building exterior median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · LA · Gonzales

1,634 Sandblasting, building exterior employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gonzales, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR TNT Crane & Rigging - San Antonio Branch 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BrandSafway LLC - Boeing Everett 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BrandSafway LLC - Motiva Refinery - Port Arthur 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TURN 2 Specialty Companies 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway LLC - BASF Chemical - Geismar 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANGUS Chemical Company - Sterlington 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4818-LA03 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0618 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, LLC 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR 532 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith Tank & Steel, Inc. 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 532 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Andritz Fabrics and Rolls Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TURN 2 Specialty Companies 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vancouver (VAA) 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vannoy Construction 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenbush Area YMCA 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 963 - North Amherst 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 639 - West Springfield 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden's Foundry & Machine 169 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.