Explosives manufacturing · Kansas

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC

Columbus, KS · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC: 4.4 TCR = 132% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC safety composite

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−7.8

2016→2020

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC injury rate improved

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC's TCR fell 7.8 from 7.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Columbus, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO PacSci EMC Hollister
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PacSci EMC Hollister (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC averages 4.4 TCR (132% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC (24 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC
Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC (24 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 7.8 7.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · KS · Columbus

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Columbus, KS · 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 PacSci EMC Hollister 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Nitrogen 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Diamond Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dyno Nobel Wolf Lake 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #1 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Feedlot Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crop Service Center Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag Connection Sales, Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossland Construction Company, Inc. 1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossland Heavy Contractors, Inc 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR 329 - New Albany-OH 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL COLUMBUS 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Glendale Chrysler Jeep Dodge 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gretna Medical Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR International Thermal Systems 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Manufacturing 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE H & O Services 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Justice Trucking 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE All-Star-Lakeville 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Branch 24 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.