Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufacturing · Louisiana

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC

Plaquemine, LA · ~416 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC safety composite

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC held a steady TCR band

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.4 in 2022 to 0.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.4 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Plaquemine, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #9/21
  • PHOTO LaPorte PVOH
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaPorte PVOH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC falls in its industry

644 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin employers in Louisiana.

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC (416 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC
Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC (416 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls LLC has more employees than the Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · LA · Plaquemine

644 Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 80 employers in Plaquemine, 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 LaPorte PVOH 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dow Chemical - Michigan Operations - Auburn Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OMNOVA Solutions - Chester 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR INEOS Composites US, LLC - Los Angeles 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Folger Coffee Co.- Gentilly 417 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco New Orleans 417 FTE
STATE-SIZE PF SPAM, LLC 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1206 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Dow Chemical Company Louisiana Operations 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Dow Chemical Company - Louisiana Operations 1,514 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dow, Inc. Plaquemine Operations 1,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Dow Plaq - Poly D 687 FTE
NAT-TCR Giving Home Health Care, Amarillo 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 7675 N. San Fernando Rd, Burbank, CA 91505 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RK Mission Critical, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HERNDON 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NJ16BBU 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE XALT Energy, LLC 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE TS Trim Industries Inc. 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Vernon 416 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, 2022. 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.