Explosives manufacturing · Illinois

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake, IL · ~103 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake safety composite

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake: 2.9 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.9 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Wolf Lake, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Red Diamond Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red Diamond Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake averages 4.0 TCR (122% 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 Wolf Lake TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=6 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake (103 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake
Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake (103 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake 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
2024 3.6 2.7 4 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 5 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2021 6.0 4.0 6 0 0
2020 2.9 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · IL · Wolf Lake

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Wolf Lake, IL · 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 Red Diamond Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Great Lakes, LLC - Columbus, IN 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilltop Energy, Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Tech Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellwood Reporting Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Power Services - Exelon, Braidwood Station 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Utility LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dyno Nobel- Wolf Lake 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaefer Enterprises 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0610 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0840 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1187 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-1 SEA BOX DRIVE 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company-Allentown 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Ear Nose and Throat - Sacramento 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0591 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plumeria 103 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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