Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Louisiana

Tulane University-Uptown

New Orleans, LA · ~4,079 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tulane University-Uptown runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Tulane University-Uptown: 1.4 TCR = 99% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tulane University-Uptown safety composite

Tulane University-Uptown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Tulane University-Uptown: 0.9 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2018

Tulane University-Uptown's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · New Orleans, LA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.4 · 99% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO School of Visual Art…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~4,079 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: School of Visual Arts LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tulane University-Uptown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tulane University-Uptown averages 1.4 TCR (99% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

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

Tulane University-Uptown TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Tulane University-Uptown falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Louisiana.

Tulane University-Uptown (4,079 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tulane University-Uptown
Tulane University-Uptown (4,079 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Tulane University-Uptown has more employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018 1.5 0.7 40 0 0
2017 1.7 0.3 41 2 0
2016 0.9 0.6 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · LA · New Orleans

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 450 employers in New Orleans, 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 School of Visual Arts LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Nevada, Reno 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mesabi Range College 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union College 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chateau Living Center of Kenner, LLC 4,304 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARAHAN 4,395 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMR Constructors, Inc. - Headquarters 4,553 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCJV Cameron LNG 4,562 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARAHAN COKE 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARAHAN PACKERS 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCMC Health 8,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Medical Center 2,675 FTE
NAT-TCR The J.M. Smucker Company - Uncrustables 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Office Remedies Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IQE-NJ 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheyenne Transitional Ctr 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6925-WHQ 4,079 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm Bay FL 2400 Palm Bay Rd 4,081 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baylor Scott & White Health 4,081 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Scottsdale 4,077 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.