Explosives manufacturing · Ohio

Austin Powder Company

Cleveland, OH · ~101 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Company runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Austin Powder Company: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Company safety composite

Austin Powder Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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

Austin Powder Company: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Austin Powder Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO EaglePicher Technolo…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EaglePicher Technologies, LLC - Seneca (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Company averages 0.5 TCR (16% 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 Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1 · 2019=1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Company falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Explosives manufacturing employers in Ohio.

Austin Powder Company (101 employees, TCR 0.5) 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 Company
Austin Powder Company (101 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Company has more 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 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 · OH · Cleveland

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 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 EaglePicher Technologies, LLC - Seneca 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyno Nobel- Wolf Lake 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Central States LLC - Fredericktown 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE RC Hemm Glass Shops Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reddy Electric Co. - All 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopkins Printing 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE APS Garfield 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR CRM Sylmar CA 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown GCA 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Library 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyndon Steel, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Airlite Plastics Co. PA 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Products RPC 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deer Park PVC/KOH Plant 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Santa Cruz Campus (1574) 101 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.