Explosives manufacturing · Indiana

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN

Columbus, IN · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN safety composite

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN held a steady TCR band

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=11.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Columbus, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Hilltop Energy, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hilltop Energy, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN averages 3.9 TCR (117% 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 Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=11.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN (21 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN
Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN (21 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN has fewer employees than the Explosives manufacturing median and a higher 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
2022 11.6 11.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · IN · Columbus

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 141 employers in Columbus, IN · 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 Hilltop Energy, Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Diamond Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanley 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Material Handling, Inc. 1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR NTN Driveshaft Inc. 1,756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Engine Plant 1,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commons Office Building 1,248 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1785 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coroplast Tape Corporation 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Protech Nutra 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - WTH1 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mineral Wells Service Center 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley House AU-7 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osseo Gardens Assisted Living 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Chemical Solutions, Charlotte 21 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.