Blood banking · Louisiana

Vitalant LA Lafayette

Lafayette, LA · ~75 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vitalant LA Lafayette runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade B.

Vitalant LA Lafayette: 2.4 TCR = 62% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vitalant LA Lafayette safety composite

Vitalant LA Lafayette scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Vitalant LA Lafayette: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2023

Vitalant LA Lafayette's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #10/39
  • PHOTO St. Paul 10180
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Paul 10180 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vitalant LA Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vitalant LA Lafayette averages 2.4 TCR (62% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

Vitalant LA Lafayette TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Vitalant LA Lafayette falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #10 safest of 39 Blood banking employers in Louisiana.

Vitalant LA Lafayette (75 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Vitalant LA Lafayette
Vitalant LA Lafayette (75 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vitalant LA 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
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2020 7.4 1.5 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 St. Paul 10180 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manchester 10555 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BioTek America,LLC - Paducah 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lackland 706 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRT Offshore Broussard 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Gonzales, LA 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE 101 AIRLINE DR METAIRIE LA 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache - Phillips 66 Westlake 75 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 Gregory Poole Lift Systems- Hanahan 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elder Services of Worcester Area, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Ave Wi 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinical Services 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cedar City Motor Company llc 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lonoke Health and Rehab 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Cooling & Heating 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orchard Point at Surprise 75 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.