Explosives manufacturing · California

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA

Mojave, CA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA safety composite

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Mojave, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Austin Powder Great …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Powder Great Lakes LLC - Findlay (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Explosives manufacturing employers in California.

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA (35 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA
Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA (35 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA has fewer employees than the Explosives manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · CA · Mojave

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Mojave, CA · 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 Austin Powder Great Lakes LLC - Findlay 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samoset 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Central States LLC - Fredericktown 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virgin Galactic LLC 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 512 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TSC,LLC 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Sanborn Solar Storage TerraGen1A 1B 20145007 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Forest Elementary School 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Murray - Corporate 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bericap SC, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR K.J. Electric 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Gyspum Delavan 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Ice Systems, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Hall 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mokena Fire Protection District 35 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, 2022. 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.