Electrician · Louisiana

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc

Metairie, LA · ~77 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electrician workplace, earning a grade A.

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Electrician BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc safety composite

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Metairie, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #32/55
  • PHOTO PWR LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PWR LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Electrician BLS benchmark).

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

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc falls in its industry

4,550 Electrician establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 55 Electrician employers in Louisiana.

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc (77 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc
Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc (77 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Walter J Barnes Electric Co Inc has more employees than the Electrician median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · LA · Metairie

4,550 Electrician employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 175 employers in Metairie, 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 PWR LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star-Lo Communications 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mass Bay Electrical Corp. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oilfield Instrumentation 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Drilling Company LLC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102854 - TEI Zen-Noh Convent Export Terminal Dock Expansion 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Formosa Plastics Corporation Baton Rouge LA 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Jefferson General Hospital 1,989 FTE
CITY-NEAR 989 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barriere Construction Co., L.L.C. 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 989 452 FTE
NAT-TCR A Schulman Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4561 - Kodak Columbus GA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ibis Tek Coatings 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holloway Houston Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake Shuttle/ Sun Road/ Western Regional 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Pharmacy Services, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Structural Steel of Carolina, LLC / DBA Salem Steel 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOMESTIC 77 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: 2019, 2018, 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.