Explosives manufacturing & distribution · Alabama

Samoset

Cordova, AL · ~100 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Samoset runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing & distribution workplace, earning a grade A.

Samoset: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Explosives manufacturing & distribution BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Samoset safety composite

Samoset scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Samoset: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

Samoset's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Cordova, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK P92
  • PHOTO Austin Powder Great …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Powder Great Lakes LLC - Findlay (0.0 TCR gap)

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Samoset in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Samoset averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Explosives manufacturing & distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Samoset TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Samoset falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing & dis establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Samoset (100 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Samoset
Samoset (100 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Samoset has more employees than the Explosives manufacturing & distribution 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
2024 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2021 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · AL · Cordova

78 Explosives manufacturing & distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 6 employers in Cordova, AL · 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 Great Lakes LLC - Findlay 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Central States LLC - Fredericktown 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Sabic Burkville 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mrs. Stratton's Salads 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tara Manufacturing Company Inc 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viscofan Montgomery 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cordova Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson Machine & Welding, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&G Steel Cordova 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR G&G Steel-Cordova 45 FTE
NAT-TCR 2509 River Road 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1042 - BELFOR Columbus OH 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimberly-Clark Corp Prototype X Mill 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fortuna Grocery Outlet 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Katsam 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #72 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Roadway Logistics 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nevada St. 100 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, 2019, 2018. 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.