Explosives Manufacturing · Virginia

NGDS-VA03

Radford, VA · ~222 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGDS-VA03 runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Explosives Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

NGDS-VA03: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Explosives Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGDS-VA03 safety composite

NGDS-VA03 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−0.8

2020→2024

NGDS-VA03 injury rate improved

NGDS-VA03's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.0 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Radford, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Tech Ord
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tech Ord (0.0 TCR gap)

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NGDS-VA03 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGDS-VA03 averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Explosives Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NGDS-VA03 TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where NGDS-VA03 falls in its industry

78 Explosives Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #2 safest of 4 Explosives Manufacturing employers in Virginia.

NGDS-VA03 (222 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 NGDS-VA03
NGDS-VA03 (222 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

NGDS-VA03 has more employees than the Explosives 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
2024 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2023 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2022 5.2 3.8 4 7 0
2021 5.3 4.8 5 6 0
2020 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · VA · Radford

78 Explosives 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 Tech Ord 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices - Byram 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Norton 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices, Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE New River Energetics 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 Keystone Quality Transport Company - Huntingdon Valley Base 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 50086 Capstone - Unfi Sarasota Fl 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Kona 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Earlybird Feed & Fertilizer-Goodfield 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10092 Newtonville 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1219 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1058 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.