Blasting powders manufacturing · California

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA

Moreno Valley, Ca, CA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blasting powders manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Blasting powders manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA safety composite

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA held a steady TCR band

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.4 in 2022 to 6.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.4 · 2023=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Moreno Valley, Ca, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Perry Defense
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perry Defense (0.3 TCR gap)

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Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Blasting powders manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA TCR series: 2022=6.4 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA falls in its industry

78 Blasting powders manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Blasting powders manufacturing employers in California.

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA (22 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA
Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA (22 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Austin Powder West LLC - Moreno Valley, CA has fewer employees than the Blasting powders 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
2023 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · CA · Moreno Valley, Ca

78 Blasting powders manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California 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 Perry Defense 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxam Initiation Systems, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
NAT-TCR TXD080 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BUF Buffalo Airport 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Connections, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ou Hillcrest Hall 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4357 GRAND JUNCTION, CO 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1738 BRISTOL, CT 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voorhees Pediatrics 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1983 Clovis, NM 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: 2023, 2022. 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.