Employer · Louisiana

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA

Westlake, LA · ~405 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA: 0.3 TCR = 11% of industry BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA safety composite

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2022→2024

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA injury rate improved

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.7 in 2022 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Westlake, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #36/110
  • PHOTO Indorama Ventures Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indorama Ventures Company Port Neches TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA averages 0.3 TCR (11% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA TCR series: 2022=0.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA falls in its industry

932 industry establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #36 safest of 110 industry employers in Louisiana.

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA (405 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA
Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA (405 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Westlake Chemicals South Westlake LA has more employees than the industry 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
2024 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.7 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · LA · Westlake

932 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 97 employers in Westlake, 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 Indorama Ventures Company Port Neches TX 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyondell Basell BYO 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rt. 37 Mathis Bridge 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Citgo Petroleum Lake Charles LA 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 376 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2706 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sabine Pass Liquefaction Project 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 909 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turner at Sasol North America Westlake LA 2,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Charles South 1,132 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITGO Petroleum Corporation 1,093 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Sasol 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR New England BioLabs, Inc. (Ipswich Headquarters) 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Disaster Services Corporation Society of St Vincent de Paul USA 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartnell College East Campus 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Hca Womans Hosp of Texas 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Highlands Ranch-Lucent Twrs (5535) 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gunnison Tree Services, LLC 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZ Tempe 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pulte Home Company LLC Home Office 405 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.