Explosives manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc.

Tamaqua, PA · ~33 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. safety composite

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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)
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2016→2024

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. injury rate improved

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc.'s TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=13.3 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Tamaqua, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P9
  • PHOTO Alpha Dyno Nobel -- …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpha Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=13.3 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. (33 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Copperhead Chemical Company Inc.
Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. (33 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Copperhead Chemical Company Inc. 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 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2022 8.8 5.9 3 0 0
2021 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2020 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2019 8.3 5.5 3 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 13.3 5.3 5 0 0
2016 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · PA · Tamaqua

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Tamaqua, PA · 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 Alpha Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Midsouth - LaFollette 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Dyno Nobel - Lincoln, CA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxam Initiations Systems, LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caputo & Guest 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colver Power Project 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oil City 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norristown Operations 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3634 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hometown 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3634 245 FTE
NAT-TCR SL Chasse Steel 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LEX 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmingdale 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunnyside School 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Interstate Printing Company 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teknor Thermoplastic Elastomers, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunbelt Feed Yard 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE D&O Garbage Service, Inc 33 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.