Commercial building construction general contractors · Louisiana

Woodward Design Build

Name: Woodward Design Build Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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New Orleans, LA · ~193 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.2
Avg TCR: 2.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Woodward Design Build runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Woodward Design Build: 1.2 TCR = 41% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Woodward Design Build safety composite

Woodward Design Build scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2016→2024

Woodward Design Build injury rate improved

Woodward Design Build's TCR fell 1.7 from 2.3 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=2.0 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · New Orleans, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 41% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #20/39
PHOTO RLN Industries, Inc
BOOK 7y book
INJ 16 inj
SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RLN Industries, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.2
RLN Industries

1.2
Brown Builders

1.2
Niking Corpora

1.2
Pike Construct

1.2

What this shows Woodward Design Build averages 1.2 TCR (41% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

Woodward Design Build TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 2.9

Where Woodward Design Build falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 39 Commercial building constructi employers in Louisiana.

Woodward Design Build (193 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Woodward Design Build has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024	0.6	0.0	1
2023	0.6	0.0	1
2020	1.0	0.5	2
2019	1.4	0.5	3
2018	0.4	0.4	1
2017	2.0	0.5	4
2016	2.3	2.3	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · LA · New Orleans

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 450 employers in New Orleans, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	RLN Industries, Inc	HITCHCOCK, TX	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brown Builders Inc	BOSSIER CITY, LA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Niking Corporation	WAHIAWA, HI	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pike Construction Services	ROCHESTER, NY	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Zatarain's	GRETNA	193 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Equistar Chemicals, LP	LAKE CHARLES	193 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 8114	LAFAYETTE	193 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Orleans Pelicans	METAIRIE	193 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN COKE	New Orleans	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN PACKERS	New Orleans	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LCMC Health	New Orleans	8,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARAHAN	New Orleans	4,395 FTE
NAT-TCR	Fort Wayne	Fort Wayne, IN	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aegis Living Home Office	Bellevue, WA	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	ULA-Decatur	Decatur, AL	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kerr Concentrates - Salem Facility	Salem, OR	1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Chattanooga	Chattanooga, TN	193 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Fountainhead Group,Inc.	New York Mills, NY	193 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Great Northern Corporation - Racine	Racine, WI	193 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Penn Line Service, Inc.	Scottdale, PA	193 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, 2020, 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.