Explosives manufacturing · West Virginia

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope

Mt. Hope, WV · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope safety composite

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope held a steady TCR band

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Mt. Hope, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Pacific Scientific E…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Explosives manufacturing employers in West Virginia.

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope (34 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope
Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope (34 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Mt. Hope 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · WV · Mt. Hope

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Scientific EMC - Chandler 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EaglePicher Technologies, LLC/Seneca Facility 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Lincoln, CA 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Laidley Tower 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern WV Paving 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trans Ash, Inc. - Amos 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allnex USA Inc. - Willow Island 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR STR0498 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Avera Health Avera Mckennan Campus 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LCN 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Thorpe 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 900 Northern Blvd 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE DSM Arcadia 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden City #223 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Asphalt Paving & Construction, Co., Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Searsport Marine Terminal 34 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, 2021, 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.