Explosives manufacturing · West Virginia

West Virginia Plant

Hernshaw, WV · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Virginia Plant runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

West Virginia Plant: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Virginia Plant safety composite

West Virginia Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−4.0

2016→2017

West Virginia Plant injury rate improved

West Virginia Plant's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Hernshaw, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Wise
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wise (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Virginia Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Virginia Plant averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Virginia Plant TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.3

Where West Virginia Plant falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Explosives manufacturing employers in West Virginia.

West Virginia Plant (30 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 West Virginia Plant
West Virginia Plant (30 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

West Virginia Plant has fewer employees than the Explosives manufacturing 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · WV · Hernshaw

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 3 employers in Hernshaw, WV · 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 Wise 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Marks Powder Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACEM Defense 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daicel Safety Technologies America, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RW Products LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riedel Wilks Building Structures, Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neighborgall Construction Main 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE FT003 - Fiber Tech - Ona 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxam Energetic, LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maxam North America Inc 25 FTE
NAT-TCR L3 Technologies Westwood Corp 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marzetti Indianola 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Perfumania Holdings Inc- Bellport 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Naperville - Warehouse 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Dca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0011 - Stockton, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0006 - Hesperia, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 30 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: 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.