Explosives manufacturing · Tennessee

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville

Pegram, TN · ~26 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville safety composite

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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 Midsouth LLC - Nashville held a steady TCR band

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Pegram, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Daicel Safety System…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville averages 3.4 TCR (102% 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 Midsouth LLC - Nashville TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=4 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Explosives manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville (26 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Midsouth LLC - Nashville
Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville (26 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.1 12.1 3 0 0
2017 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · TN · Pegram

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee 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 Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New River Energetics 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Norton 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Mayhew Basque Plastics LLC. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Albert Brothers Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Generating Station 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northland Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mark Ann Industries 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE DeSalvo Construction Company, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Leaf Associates 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE southhampton 26 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.