Explosives manufacturing · Missouri

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO

Carthage, MO · ~223 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO safety composite

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−1.5

2023→2024

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO injury rate improved

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.3 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.3 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Carthage, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Austin Powder Northe…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Powder Northeast LLC - Mt. William (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO (223 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO
Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO (223 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Dyno Nobel Inc. Carthage MO 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
2024 0.9 0.4 1 1 0
2023 2.3 1.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · MO · Carthage

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, MO · 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 Northeast LLC - Mt. William 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mining Services 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BST Manufacturing Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAE Systems Inc - Radford Army Ammunition Plant 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ellisville MO 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartmann US Inc. 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE NorthStar Battery Plant 2 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPointe Hospital 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-TCR Crooked Tree Nursery LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Extreme Cleaning Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Benna Auto Center, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LEOMINSTER-MA16 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ameripack Foods LLC 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE 55th Street Center 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deublin Company 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ability Building Community 223 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. 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.