Gunpowder manufacturing · Virginia

New River Energetics

Radford, VA · ~222 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New River Energetics runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gunpowder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

New River Energetics: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Gunpowder manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New River Energetics safety composite

New River Energetics scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2016→2019

New River Energetics injury rate improved

New River Energetics's TCR fell 3.6 from 6.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Radford, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Austin Powder Midsou…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville (0.1 TCR gap)

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New River Energetics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New River Energetics averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Gunpowder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New River Energetics TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where New River Energetics falls in its industry

78 Gunpowder manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Gunpowder manufacturing employers in Virginia.

New River Energetics (222 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 New River Energetics
New River Energetics (222 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

New River Energetics has more employees than the Gunpowder manufacturing median and a higher 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
2019 2.5 2.5 5 0 0
2018 2.5 1.5 5 0 0
2017 2.6 2.1 5 0 0
2016 6.1 4.4 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · VA · Radford

78 Gunpowder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 43 employers in Radford, VA · 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 Austin Powder Midsouth LLC - Nashville 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daicel Safety Systems Americas INC (Gas Generant Division) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanley 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NGDS-VA03 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manassas - MB 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 135 - Richmond 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1827 - Chantilly 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAE Systems Inc - Radford Army Ammunition Plant 1,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kollmorgen 501 W. Main St. 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kollmorgen Industrial Drives (LC) KL1002 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2762 301 FTE
NAT-TCR P199 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1305 Walnut Street Corp 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aperion Care Litchfield 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Complex 46 - Extrusion 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASL 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Heath Trucking, Inc 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intel-Hillsboro 222 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.