Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Louisiana

WPS Industries Inc

West Monroe, LA · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WPS Industries Inc runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

WPS Industries Inc: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WPS Industries Inc safety composite

WPS Industries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−2.4

2016→2021

WPS Industries Inc injury rate improved

WPS Industries Inc's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · West Monroe, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Newport News Industr…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newport News Industrial- OIP (0.0 TCR gap)

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WPS Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WPS Industries Inc averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WPS Industries Inc TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where WPS Industries Inc falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Louisiana.

WPS Industries Inc (80 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WPS Industries Inc
WPS Industries Inc (80 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

WPS Industries Inc has more employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.5 3.7 7 0 0
2017 4.5 0.9 5 0 0
2016 2.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · LA · West Monroe

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 78 employers in West Monroe, 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 Newport News Industrial- OIP 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rotary Airlock Plant 1 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Serrmi Products 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAG Shelby Operating, LLC 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Plant 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE McInnis Brothers Construction Inc 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE US FUSION and Specialty Construction 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Parish Contractors, Inc. 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Monroe LA (Mill) 864 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Monroe LA Mill 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR 307 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 307 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Boak & Sons, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Container Terminal Berths 247-270 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Division #14 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunbar 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flavor Manufacturing, Apopka 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Confections Plant 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia Expo 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tech Cast LLC 80 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.