Explosives manufacturing · South Dakota

Tech Ord

Clear Lake, SD · ~148 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Tech Ord runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Tech Ord: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tech Ord safety composite

Tech Ord scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 40% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−1.0

2016→2023

Tech Ord injury rate improved

Tech Ord's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Clear Lake, SD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO Cartridge Actuated D…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cartridge Actuated Devices - Byram (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tech Ord in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tech Ord averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tech Ord TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=4 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Tech Ord falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tech Ord (148 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 Tech Ord
Tech Ord (148 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Tech Ord 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
2023 2.0 1.4 2 1 0
2022 6.7 5.3 9 0 1
2021 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 3 0 0
2019 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2017 4.0 1.6 3 2 0
2016 3.1 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · SD · Clear Lake

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Clear Lake, SD · 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 Cartridge Actuated Devices - Byram 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGDS-VA03 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Appalachia LLC - Norton 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartridge Actuated Devices, Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marshall 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Touchmark - TAAS 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masaba Inc. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR 104423 - Deuel Harvest Wind Farm 300MW 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Clear Lake-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Deuel County 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-TCR Alliance Tractor, LLC. - Casey, IL. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Decherd Powertrain Assembly 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health Earth City 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbor House Rehabilitation & Nursing Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Mountain Post-Acute 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contructions 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inland Empire Paper Company 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE City Club at River Ranch 148 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, 2021, 2020, 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.