Explosives manufacturing · North Carolina

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton

Denton, NC · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton safety composite

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 Southeast LLC - Denton: 5.7 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.82× in 2022

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.7 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Denton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK P45
  • PHOTO Teledyne RISI Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teledyne RISI Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton averages 2.6 TCR (79% 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 Southeast LLC - Denton TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton (18 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Southeast LLC - Denton
Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton (18 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder Southeast LLC - Denton 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 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · NC · Denton

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 7 employers in Denton, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Teledyne RISI Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyno Nobel 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owen Oil Tools 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Northeast LLC - Sterling, CT 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Construction Implements Depot 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOUNTAIN VISTA HEALTH PARK 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Products, LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowes Foods #66 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Save A Lot #137 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alexandria Transit Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Irving Energy 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Border States Electric - Williston 2.6 TCR

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. 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.