State profile · OSHA ITA
Louisiana workplace safety
How 6,723 OSHA-reporting employers across Louisiana compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 6,723
- Employers
- 3.7
- Avg TCR
- 71,071
- Injuries
- 116
- Fatalities
The state picture
Louisiana's reporting employers average 3.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 3.7
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 6,723
- employers reporting
- 71,071
- recordable injuries
- 116
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
11% of Louisiana's reporting establishments earn an F and 27% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Louisiana ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRLouisiana's average TCR of 3.7 is lower than 98% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Louisiana is #2 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #47 of 54, a 45-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Louisiana Workplaces Compare
Louisiana hosts 6,723 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Louisiana cohort, workers have logged 71,071 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 116 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Louisiana, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Louisiana, by injury rate
Page 102 of 135| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant Services | Kenner | Labor (except farm) contract | A | 0.2 |
| Couvillion Group, LLC | Belle Chasse | Marine construction | A | 0.2 |
| TSS at Westlake Chemical Plaquemine LA | Plaquemine | - | A | 0.2 |
| Analytic Stress Relieving, LLC | Lafayette | Heat treating metals and met | A | 0.2 |
| Kent Design Build Inc. | Mandeville | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| The Dow Chemical Company - Louisiana Operations | Plaquemine | Acyclic hydrocarbons (e.g., | A | 0.2 |
| Youngsville | Youngsville | Gas well machinery and equip | A | 0.2 |
| Sontheimer Offshore Catering Company | Houma | Caterers | A | 0.2 |
| Turner at Occidental (OxyChem) Geismar LA | Geismar | - | A | 0.2 |
| Waskey Bridges, Inc. | Baton Rouge | Concrete products, precast ( | A | 0.2 |
| Halliburton ICC | New Iberia | Servicing oil and gas wells | A | 0.2 |
| Lake Charles Fabrication Shop | Lake Charles | Fabricated structural metal | A | 0.2 |
| Bogalusa Container Plant | Bogalusa | Corrugated and solid fiber b | A | 0.2 |
| Safety Management Systems | Lafayette | Safety consulting services | A | 0.2 |
| Acadian Total Security | Lafayette | Security system monitoring s | A | 0.2 |
| Jacobs Metairie Office | Metairie | Engineering services | A | 0.2 |
| Saint Charles Operations - Taft | Taft | Accelerators (i.e., basic sy | A | 0.2 |
| TIM at Rubicon LLC Geismar LA | Geismar | - | A | 0.2 |
| Shell - Robert Training Center | Robert | Corporate offices | A | 0.2 |
| DonahueFavret Contractors, Inc. | Mandeville | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| Performance Contractors, Inc. - Shintech-Plaquemine | Plaquemine | Construction management, oil | A | 0.2 |
| ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Plastics Plant | Baton Rouge | Resins, plastics (except cus | A | 0.2 |
| Cajun Industries, LLC | Baton Rouge | Commercial building construc | A | 0.2 |
| The Foust Group, Coating Services | Gonzales | Sandblasting, building exter | A | 0.2 |
| Sabine Pass LNG-L.P., LLC | Cameron | Gases, industrial (i.e., com | A | 0.2 |
| Rubicon Geismar LA - BSL | Geismar | Multi Craft | A | 0.2 |
| GROUP Deep Foundations | Baton Rouge | Piling (i.e., bored, cast-in | A | 0.2 |
| Westlake Chemical Sout | Lake Charles | Chlorine compounds, not spec | A | 0.2 |
| Blueline Manufacturing | Scott | Powder metallurgy products m | A | 0.2 |
| Petrochemical Complex | Sulphur | Monosodium glutamate manufac | A | 0.2 |
| EXCEL Maintenance @ Shintech, Addis | Addis | Refinery, petroleum, constru | A | 0.2 |
| Byrnes Mechanical Contractors, Inc. | West Monroe | Plumbing and heating contrac | A | 0.2 |
| Baton Rouge- Perkins Facility | Baton Rouge | Control valves, fluid power, | A | 0.2 |
| 541 - Thibodaux | Thibodaux | Industrial Launderers | A | 0.2 |
| Amedisys Inc | Baton Rouge | Home health agencies | A | 0.2 |
| Main Office | Broussard | Electrical wiring contractor | A | 0.2 |
| Danos LLC | Gray | Oil well logging on a contra | A | 0.2 |
| Corporate Office | Gray | Contract services (except si | A | 0.2 |
| Entergy Lake Charles | Lake Charles | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.2 |
| Lake Charles Branch | Sulphur | Commercial and industrial ma | A | 0.2 |
| Turner at Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA | Port Allen | - | A | 0.2 |
| Turner at Shell Chemical LP Geismar LA | Geismar | - | A | 0.2 |
| Turner at Shell/Motiva Enterprises LLC Norco LA | Norco | - | A | 0.2 |
| Kent & Smith Holdings, LLC | Port Allen | Trucking, specialized freigh | A | 0.2 |
| Turnaround Weding Services | Livingston | Petroleum refinery construct | A | 0.2 |
| Burner Fire Control, Inc. | Broussard | Building, erecting, repairin | A | 0.2 |
| Franklin Press, Inc. | Baton Rouge | Print shops, engraving (exce | A | 0.2 |
| River Bend Nuclear Station | St. Francisville | Power generation, nuclear el | A | 0.2 |
| Polaris Epc Inc. | Lake Charles | Engineering services | A | 0.2 |
| Citgo Petroleum Lake Charles LA | Lake Charles | - | A | 0.2 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Louisiana's safety record means for you
Louisiana averages a TCR of 3.7 - about 1.4× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.