Tantalum refining, primary · Nevada

KEMET Blue Powder Corp.

Mound House, NV · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tantalum refining, primary workplace, earning a grade F.

KEMET Blue Powder Corp.: 8.5 TCR = 258% of Tantalum refining, primary BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. safety composite

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

2017→2018

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. injury rate improved

KEMET Blue Powder Corp.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 9.0 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.0 · 2018=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · Mound House, NV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 258% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO Midland Industries
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midland Industries (0.1 TCR gap)

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KEMET Blue Powder Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KEMET Blue Powder Corp. averages 8.5 TCR (258% of the Tantalum refining, primary BLS benchmark).

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

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. TCR series: 2017=9 · 2018=8 · BLS 3.3

Where KEMET Blue Powder Corp. falls in its industry

57 Tantalum refining, primary establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
KEMET Blue Powder Corp. (70 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KEMET Blue Powder Corp.
KEMET Blue Powder Corp. (70 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

KEMET Blue Powder Corp. has fewer employees than the Tantalum refining, primary median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 8.0 6.9 7 0 0
2017 9.0 9.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · NV · Mound House

57 Tantalum refining, primary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 8 employers in Mound House, NV · 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 Midland Industries 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metalor Technologies 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Telex Metals 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASARCO LLC.-Amarillo Copper Refinery 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FSG-Nevada-I15/215 Interchange 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnard Construction Company, Inc.- Lake Mead 608 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Civil Werx LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sloan Ready Mix Plant 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Production Pattern & Foundry CO INC 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cruz Construction Co., Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pokrajac Corporation 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olcese Waste Services DBA Fernandes Disposal 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Pagosa - Resort 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giorgi Mushroom Farm 1 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvtrk-Hct-Irving Truck 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MXG 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wichita Branch 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Quincy LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE GNNC, Inc. dba Gosnell Therapy and Living 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sierra Vista Medical Group 70 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: 2018, 2017. 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.