Explosives manufacturing · Tennessee

Holston Army Ammunition Plant

Name: Holston Army Ammunition Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kingsport, TN · ~809 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Holston Army Ammunition Plant runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Holston Army Ammunition Plant: 1.5 TCR = 44% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Holston Army Ammunition Plant safety composite

Holston Army Ammunition Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Holston Army Ammunition Plant: 1.2 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2017

Holston Army Ammunition Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.2 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Kingsport, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 44% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #1/6
PHOTO Hunting Titan, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 24 inj
SIZE ~809 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hunting Titan, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.5
Nammo Perry In

1.5
Chemring Ordna

1.5
Hunting Titan,

1.4
DynaEnergetics

1.4

What this shows Holston Army Ammunition Plant averages 1.5 TCR (44% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Holston Army Ammunition Plant TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Holston Army Ammunition Plant falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Holston Army Ammunition Plant (809 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Holston Army Ammunition Plant 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
2017	1.7	0.8	15	0	0
2016	1.2	0.9	9	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · TN · Kingsport

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 152 employers in Kingsport, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hunting Titan, Inc.	MILFORD, TX	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DynaEnergetics US Inc. (Whitney)	WHITNEY, TX	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nammo Perry Inc	PERRY, FL	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chemring Ordnance, Inc.	PERRY, FL	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Chattanooga State Community College	CHATTANOOGA	808 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CORP4000 - SVM CORPORATE BSC	MEMPHIS	811 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Adventist University	COLLEGEDALE	811 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aisin Automotive Casting Tennessee	CLINTON	805 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Kingsport Site	Kingsport	7,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Holston Valley Medical Center	Kingsport	1,733 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eastman Chemical Company Kinsport TN- BSL	Kingsport	1,206 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BLUE RIDGE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION - VA	Kingsport	1,073 FTE
NAT-TCR	Damascus Inn Inc.	Damascus, VA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Legends - Blossom Music Center	Cuyahoga Falls, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	RAFS of Pensacola, Inc	Pensacola, FL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	TDMAN - Mansfield, OH	Mansfield, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Gardena Hub (Cagar)	Gardena, CA	809 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Los Angeles Int. Airport	Los Angeles, CA	809 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Woods Hole, MA	809 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wake Forest Health Network	Winston Salem, NC	809 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: 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.