Explosives manufacturing · Texas

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum)

Blum, TX · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum): 0.4 TCR = 11% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) safety composite

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum): 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum)'s TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Blum, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Dyno Nobel- Wolf Lake
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dyno Nobel- Wolf Lake (0.1 TCR gap)

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DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Explosives manufacturing employers in Texas.

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) (80 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum)
DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) (80 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Blum) has more 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
2018 1.1 0.0 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 · TX · Blum

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 6 employers in Blum, TX · 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 Dyno Nobel- Wolf Lake 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EaglePicher Technologies, LLC - Seneca 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Central States LLC - Fredericktown 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE STRC Oilfield Technology, LLC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Plaza 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE YSTA Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edinburg Office 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR DynaEnergetics US Inc. -Blum, TX Main Campus 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR DynaEnergetics 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCANDM-LLC 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR DynaEnergetics Energetics 50 FTE
NAT-TCR UTC Aerospace Systems Major Business Unit 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodrich - Customer Service 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncdot It 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KCP&L - 801 Charlotte 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doritex Corp. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pint Size Hawaii LLC - Oahu 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE IO - Lexington 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Health - Litchfield 80 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: 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.