Explosives manufacturing · West Virginia

Maxam North America Inc

Hernshaw, WV · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Maxam North America Inc runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Maxam North America Inc: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maxam North America Inc safety composite

Maxam North America Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Maxam North America Inc: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Maxam North America Inc's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Hernshaw, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO BAE Systems
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BAE Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Maxam North America Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maxam North America Inc averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Maxam North America Inc TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Maxam North America Inc falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Explosives manufacturing employers in West Virginia.

Maxam North America Inc (25 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Maxam North America Inc
Maxam North America Inc (25 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Maxam North America Inc has fewer 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
2023 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · WV · Hernshaw

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hernshaw, WV · 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 BAE Systems 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanley Industries 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Star Detonator Company 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teledyne RISI Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE B&W Quality Growers - WV 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Verano WV CPG 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Valley Breeders 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridge Runner PLS LLC 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Virginia Plant 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxam Energetic, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Airgas Dry Ice - Star 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IQHC Worthington MN 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Cahokia Unit Sd 187 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Chevron San Ramon Mail Room 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogers Hampton Inn 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn - Chaffee Point 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Facilities 25 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: 2023, 2022. 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.