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 103 of 135| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment Division Baton Rouge LA | Baton Rouge | - | A | 0.2 |
| Olin Chlor Alkali Products Plaquemine LA | Plaquemine | - | A | 0.2 |
| Performance Contractors, Inc. - REG-Geismar | Geismar | Construction management, oil | A | 0.2 |
| Garyville Refinery | Garyville | Petroleum Refineries | A | 0.2 |
| Industrial Specialists LLC - Gonzales Branch | Gonzales | Specialty Trade Contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Delhi | Delhi | Frozen Fruit Juice and Veg | A | 0.2 |
| Valero Meraux Refinery | Chalmette | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.2 |
| BrandSafway, LLC - Baton Rouge Branch | Prairieville | Specialty Trade Contractor | A | 0.2 |
| Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex | Westlake | Crude oil merchant wholesale | A | 0.2 |
| Beta Engineering, LLC | Pineville | Electric power transmission | A | 0.2 |
| Pontchartrain Works | Laplace | Chloroprene rubber manufactu | A | 0.2 |
| Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Product US - Norco Refinery | Norco | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.2 |
| Sulphur,LA | Sulphur | 713940 Fitness and Recreatio | A | 0.2 |
| Shell Chemical | Geismar | Ethylene made in petroleum r | A | 0.2 |
| Brock Services Lake Charles LA | Sulphur | Multi Craft | A | 0.2 |
| ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery | Baton Rouge | Petroleum refineries | A | 0.2 |
| Cameron | Ville Platte | Ball valves, industrial-type | A | 0.2 |
| Candy Fleet | Morgan City | Intracoastal transportation | A | 0.2 |
| Dunham Price, LLC | Westlake | Natural (i.e., calcined eart | A | 0.1 |
| Manda - Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge | Meat products (e.g., hot dog | A | 0.1 |
| Coastal Corrosion Control, Inc. | Baton Rouge | Cathodic protection, install | A | 0.1 |
| MMR Constructors, Inc. - Baton Rouge Operations | Baton Rouge | Electrical contractors | A | 0.1 |
| TSS at Dow Chemical Company Plaquemine LA | Plaquemine | - | A | 0.1 |
| Gol, LLC | Raceland | Boat rental or leasing, comm | A | 0.1 |
| Equilon Enterprises LLC dba Shell Oil Products US - Norco Refinery | Norco | Refinery gases made in petro | A | 0.1 |
| Rotolo Consultants Inc | Slidell | Landscape care and maintenan | A | 0.1 |
| Performance Contractors, Inc. - Venture Global LNG-Port Sulphur | Port Sulphur | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| Cameron LNG | Hackberry | Pipeline terminal facilities | A | 0.1 |
| R.O.W.C., L.L.C. | Sulphur | Embankment construction | A | 0.1 |
| West Monroe | West Monroe | Industrial building (except | A | 0.1 |
| Waterford 3 | Killona | Power generation, nuclear el | A | 0.1 |
| Plaquemine Plant | Plaquemine | Natural Gas Liquid Extractio | A | 0.1 |
| St. Charles Refinery, Valero Refining - New Orleans, LLC | Norco | Acid oils made in petroleum | A | 0.1 |
| Performance Contractors, Inc. - Sasol | Westlake | Oil refinery construction | A | 0.1 |
| Mexichem Fluor St. Gabriel (KLEA) Site | St. Gabriel | Fluorocarbon gases manufactu | A | 0.1 |
| Hammond | Hammond | Farm and Garden Machinery an | A | 0.1 |
| National Inspection Services, LLC | Scott | Non-destructive testing labo | A | 0.1 |
| A-1 Electrical Contractors, Inc. | Harvey | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.1 |
| Arkel Constructors | Baton Rouge | Office building construction | A | 0.1 |
| Dow Plaquemine LA - BSL | Plaquemine | Multi Craft | A | 0.1 |
| Performance Contractors, Inc. - Bayer | Luling | Oil refinery construction | A | 0.1 |
| Capitol Ultrasonics | Baton Rouge | Non-destructive testing labo | A | 0.1 |
| Turner at Shell Convent LA | Convent | - | A | 0.1 |
| JFSNA at Dow Plaquemine | Plaquemine | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 0.1 |
| JFSNA at ExxonMobil Complex Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge | Petroleum refinery construct | A | 0.1 |
| Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations - New Orleans | New Orleans | Bulk petroleum storage | A | 0.1 |
| Lousiana Integrated Polyethylene JV, LLC | Westlake | Acyclic hydrocarbons (e.g., | A | 0.1 |
| Steam and Process Repairs | Gonzales | Control valves, industrial-t | A | 0.1 |
| MMR Constructors, Inc. - Headquarters | Baton Rouge | Electric contracting | A | 0.1 |
| TIM at CF Industries Donaldsonville LA | Donaldsonville | - | A | 0.1 |
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.