Explosives manufacturing · Kentucky

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division)

Beaver Dam, KY · ~92 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division): 3.3 TCR = 100% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) safety composite

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.9

2019→2020

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) injury rate improved

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division)'s TCR fell 2.9 from 4.8 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Beaver Dam, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Austin Powder Midsou…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville (0.1 TCR gap)

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Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Explosives manufacturing employers in Kentucky.

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) (92 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division)
Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) (92 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) has more 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
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2019 4.8 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · KY · Beaver Dam

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 23 employers in Beaver Dam, KY · 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 Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Norton 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices - Byram 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Bend Generating Station 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Judy Construction Company 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frederick & May Construction 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingevity - Wickliffe Carbon Plant 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cromwell Plant 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daicel Safety Systems America, LLC 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daicel Safety Systems Americas, INC (KY Inflator Division) 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 333 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Metis TPS, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Natchitoches Community Care Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossville Distribution Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JKS Industries, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Steel - Elk Grove Village 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Corning Summit Roofing 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fisk Electric Company - New Orleans, LA 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbridge Plant 92 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.