Explosives manufacturing · Alabama

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit

Blountsville, AL · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit: 7.7 TCR = 234% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit safety composite

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Midsouth LLC - Summit: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 22.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2022

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Blountsville, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 234% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK P1
  • PHOTO Dyno Nobel Graham, KY.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dyno Nobel Graham, KY. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit averages 7.7 TCR (234% 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 - Summit TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=17.6 · 2018=22 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit (22 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit
Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit (22 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Summit 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
2022 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 22.0 14.7 3 0 0
2017 17.6 8.8 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · AL · Blountsville

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 5 employers in Blountsville, AL · 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 Dyno Nobel Graham, KY. 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOEX Powder Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Camden Plant 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxam Initiation Systems, LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Breeder/Broiler 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koch Foods Live Haul Gadsden Alabama 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.A.D.H. GIN, INC. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Logan Martin Dam 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blountsville Plant 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI / TYSON FOODS INC. - BLOUNTSVILLE 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0604 Tyson Foods Inc. - Blountsville 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luckys 94 21 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-431-Pottery Barn 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis 064 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Edinbrook Elementary 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kline Electric 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northeast Industrial Batteries Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jones Oil Company Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dawson Tire & Wheel - Holly 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vertellus - Delaware Water Gap 22 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: 2022, 2021, 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.