Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing · Tennessee

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC

Toone, TN · ~332 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC safety composite

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−3.5

2020→2024

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC injury rate improved

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC's TCR fell 3.5 from 6.3 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.3 · 2021=3.7 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Toone, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Highline Warren Livo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~332 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highline Warren Livonia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kilgore Flares Co. LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kilgore Flares Co. LLC averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC TCR series: 2020=6.3 · 2021=3.7 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Kilgore Flares Co. LLC falls in its industry

485 Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, fl establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, fl employers in Tennessee.

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC (332 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kilgore Flares Co. LLC
Kilgore Flares Co. LLC (332 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kilgore Flares Co. LLC has more employees than the Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight b median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.9 2.3 10 0 0
2021 3.7 3.4 7 4 0
2020 6.3 6.0 6 14 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · TN · Toone

485 Pyrotechnics (e.g., flares, flashlight bombs, signals) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 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 Highline Warren Livonia 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nox-Crete Manufacturing, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuBois Chemicals dba BHS 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FUJIFILM ULTRAPURE SOLUTIONS 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ideal Clamp Products 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1969-PPW1 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH CENTRAL 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE NexGen Contracting, LLC 333 FTE
NAT-TCR 25-Usf-Olf Crystal Park 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 20-Usf-Olf Clinton 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Towson Mechanical, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dorsey Excavating Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scaled Composites 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Allentown 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kendrick Plastics 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shenandoah Medical Center 332 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, 2021, 2020. 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.