Explosives manufacturing · Louisiana

BST Manufacturing Inc.

Minden, LA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BST Manufacturing Inc. runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BST Manufacturing Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BST Manufacturing Inc. safety composite

BST Manufacturing Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

BST Manufacturing Inc.: 0.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.88× in 2019

BST Manufacturing Inc.'s TCR rose 4.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Minden, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P68
  • PHOTO Mining Services
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mining Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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BST Manufacturing Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BST Manufacturing Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (47% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BST Manufacturing Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where BST Manufacturing Inc. falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
BST Manufacturing Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate BST Manufacturing Inc.
BST Manufacturing Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

BST Manufacturing Inc. has fewer employees than the Explosives manufacturing median and a lower 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
2019 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · LA · Minden

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 29 employers in Minden, LA · 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 Mining Services 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAE Systems Inc - Radford Army Ammunition Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemring Ordnance, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nammo Perry Inc 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7334-America Styrenics 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE FJ Burnell, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satco Inc 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minden Medical Center 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHLG- Minden LLC (Minden Medical Center) 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fibrebond 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR 87 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Flora CUSD #35 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PKI 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Overland Products 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlin Combustion Technologies, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE EnerG2 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE PM Labor Group LLC 51 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: 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.