Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing · Nebraska

Hornady MFG Co West Plant

Alda, NE · ~417 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hornady MFG Co West Plant runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hornady MFG Co West Plant: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hornady MFG Co West Plant safety composite

Hornady MFG Co West Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−1.0

2019→2024

Hornady MFG Co West Plant injury rate improved

Hornady MFG Co West Plant's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.4 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332992 · Alda, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Hornady Mfg Co
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~417 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hornady Mfg Co (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hornady MFG Co West Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hornady MFG Co West Plant averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hornady MFG Co West Plant TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hornady MFG Co West Plant falls in its industry

50 Ammunition, small arms (i.e., establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hornady MFG Co West Plant (417 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hornady MFG Co West Plant
Hornady MFG Co West Plant (417 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Hornady MFG Co West Plant has more employees than the Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 2.4 1.6 13 0 0
2023 2.1 1.4 12 0 0
2022 2.9 2.1 11 0 0
2021 3.3 1.8 11 0 0
2020 2.3 2.0 7 0 0
2019 3.4 1.5 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332992 · NE · Alda

50 Ammunition, small arms (i.e., 30 mm. or less, 1.18 inch or less), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 6 employers in Alda, NE · 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 Hornady Mfg Co 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hevi-SHOT/Federal Cartridge Company 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiocchi of America, Inc. Ozark 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 598 418 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5141 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 163 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1671 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornady Mfg - Tools 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR 193 TA Grand Island 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR PMI Nebraska LLC - Alda 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platte Valley Energetics 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirkwood Material Supply #688 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Perfecto Industries, Inc. - Piqua 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Muller Copper Line Sets 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PRL Glass Systems, Inc. 417 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGMS-B382 417 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Placing Northern California 417 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Transit East Metro Garage 417 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.