Explosives manufacturing · Utah

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO)

Salt Lake City, UT · ~181 workers · 4 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

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Explosives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO): 0.8 TCR = 26% of Explosives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) safety composite

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−1.0

2021→2024

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) injury rate improved

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO)'s TCR fell 1.0 from 1.5 in 2021 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.5 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325920 · Salt Lake City, UT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P88
  • PHOTO Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~181 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) averages 0.8 TCR (26% of the Explosives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) falls in its industry

78 Explosives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) (181 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 Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO)
Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) (181 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Western Explosives Systems Company (WESCO) has more 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
2024 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.5 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325920 · UT · Salt Lake City

78 Explosives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 998 employers in Salt Lake City, UT · 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 Alpha/Dyno Nobel -- Mojave, CA 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Great Lakes LLC - Findlay 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samoset 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Powder Central States LLC - Fredericktown 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big-D Corporation 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orem City Recreation Department 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kore Refrigeration 181 FTE
STATE-SIZE 706-00072 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - SLC 4,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR PC - Primary Childrens Hospital 3,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3 Technologies, Inc. 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salt Lake City Terminal 2,766 FTE
NAT-TCR knapheide truck equipment 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Roanoke AL 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Corrugated Inc. dba BCI Koch Division 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Maria Parham Health - FNS 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marine Terminals Corporation - Dundalk 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati OH 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPC Lydon, LLC 181 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casper Colosimo & Son, Inc. 181 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. 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.