Explosives manufacturing · California

PacSci EMC Hollister

Hollister, CA · ~459 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PacSci EMC Hollister runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

PacSci EMC Hollister: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PacSci EMC Hollister safety composite

PacSci EMC Hollister scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

PacSci EMC Hollister: 1.6 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2024

PacSci EMC Hollister's TCR rose 10.5 from 1.6 in 2017 to 12.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Hollister, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO US Nitrogen
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~459 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Nitrogen (0.0 TCR gap)

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PacSci EMC Hollister in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PacSci EMC Hollister averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PacSci EMC Hollister TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where PacSci EMC Hollister falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Explosives manufacturing employers in California.

PacSci EMC Hollister (459 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 PacSci EMC Hollister
PacSci EMC Hollister (459 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

PacSci EMC Hollister 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 12.2 8.7 6 1 0
2019 2.3 1.7 10 1 0
2018 1.8 1.6 8 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · CA · Hollister

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 71 employers in Hollister, CA · 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 US Nitrogen 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hallowell Manufacturing, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSEMC CA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Diamond Plant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Level 5, Inc. 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howmet Global Fastening Systems Inc 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE YYK Enterprises Operations, LLC 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE GSI-1 Monterey Park 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 155 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jose M. Espindola 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Benito Foods 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR George Chiala Farms - Hollister 193 FTE
NAT-TCR McKees Rocks 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Quakertown West 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tallahassee FL Yard 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amherst Store 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Premio Foods Inc - Hawthorne 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawesville 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Westport 459 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.