Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Hawaii

Keaau

Keaau, HI · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keaau runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Keaau: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keaau safety composite

Keaau scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.2

2023→2024

Keaau injury rate improved

Keaau's TCR fell 11.2 from 11.2 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Keaau, HI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO CRI Tolling
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CRI Tolling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Keaau in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keaau averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Keaau TCR series: 2023=11.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Keaau falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Hawaii.

Keaau (44 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Keaau
Keaau (44 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Keaau has fewer employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 11.2 9.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · HI · Keaau

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,022 rated employers in Hawaii with headcount on file · 10 employers in Keaau, HI · 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 CRI Tolling 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cyalume Specialty Products - Bound Brook Site 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SACHEM-Austin 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hero BX - Alabama 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hilo Yard 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4829-13590 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arita Poulson General Contracting 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4829-12672 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Company LLC 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Easter Seals Hawaii - Hilo Service Center 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR HR Hawaii for Orchidland General Store/True Value Hardware 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Island Biodiesel 49 FTE
NAT-TCR L!VE Technologies 3DX 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unr Pack Place 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1749 Austell 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Sportswear LP 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5955 - Huntsville 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kent Foundry 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE HPC Industrial Group LLC H1139 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic services of Bozeman -4886 44 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.