Home care of elderly, medical · Louisiana

Vital Link, A Home Care Company

Hammond, LA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vital Link, A Home Care Company runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home care of elderly, medical workplace, earning a grade A.

Vital Link, A Home Care Company: 2.5 TCR = 48% of Home care of elderly, medical BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vital Link, A Home Care Company safety composite

Vital Link, A Home Care Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2020→2021

Vital Link, A Home Care Company injury rate improved

Vital Link, A Home Care Company's TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Hammond, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.5 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/61
  • PHOTO Gentle Shepherd Hosp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gentle Shepherd Hospice, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vital Link, A Home Care Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vital Link, A Home Care Company averages 2.5 TCR (48% of the Home care of elderly, medical BLS benchmark).

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

Vital Link, A Home Care Company TCR series: 2020=5 · 2021=0 · BLS 5.2

Where Vital Link, A Home Care Company falls in its industry

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 61 Home care of elderly, medical employers in Louisiana.

Vital Link, A Home Care Company (58 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vital Link, A Home Care Company
Vital Link, A Home Care Company (58 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Vital Link, A Home Care Company has fewer employees than the Home care of elderly, medical median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · LA · Hammond

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 101 employers in Hammond, 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 Gentle Shepherd Hospice, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LifeCare@HOME 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compassus Auburn Bethany 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Bridgewater Medical Investors Limited Partnership d/b/d Life Care Center of West Bridgewater 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIM at Cornerstone Chemicals Westwego LA 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE NovelAire Technologies Baton Rouge LA 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Hammond Processing 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR 489 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 489 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intralox LLC - Hammond 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Meijer 247 Great Lakes Limited Partnership 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TL Service, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ball Metalpack - Oakdale, CA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ChemDesign 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Still 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEBA Medical and Benefits Plan 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Services - Cahokia Hauling 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warrenton NJ TE LLC 58 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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