Blood banking · Louisiana

United Blood Services-Lafayette

Lafayette, LA · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Blood Services-Lafayette runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade A.

United Blood Services-Lafayette: 1.4 TCR = 38% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Blood Services-Lafayette safety composite

United Blood Services-Lafayette scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

United Blood Services-Lafayette: 1.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

United Blood Services-Lafayette's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Lafayette, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/39
  • PHOTO Wyoming 10173
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wyoming 10173 (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Blood Services-Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Blood Services-Lafayette averages 1.4 TCR (38% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

United Blood Services-Lafayette TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=1.9 · BLS 3.8

Where United Blood Services-Lafayette falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 39 Blood banking employers in Louisiana.

United Blood Services-Lafayette (102 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate United Blood Services-Lafayette
United Blood Services-Lafayette (102 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

United Blood Services-Lafayette has more employees than the Blood banking median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2017 1.9 0.0 1 1 0
2016 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · LA · Lafayette

1,713 Blood banking employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 312 employers in Lafayette, 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 Wyoming 10173 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beloit 10005 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington 10404 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amarillo 10283 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PBF Chalmette 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Dow Chemical Company SCO Hahnville LA 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structural #76 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE A-1 Electrical Contractors, Inc. 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acadian Ambulance 3,166 FTE
CITY-NEAR OLG Lafayette General Medical Center 2,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc. 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stuller, Inc. Global Headquarters 1,330 FTE
NAT-TCR Carroll House Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CentralPark 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryerson- Los Angeles 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DSL_JACKSONVILLE_8001_FL 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE LKC 2nd Avenue 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCR Star Oregon, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne (Wyche) 102 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: 2017, 2016. 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.