Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Massachusetts

Alphagary

Leominster, MA · ~160 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alphagary runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade A.

Alphagary: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alphagary safety composite

Alphagary scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Alphagary: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Alphagary's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.6 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Leominster, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO PolyOne
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PolyOne (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alphagary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alphagary averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Alphagary TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.1 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Alphagary falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Massachusetts.

Alphagary (160 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Alphagary
Alphagary (160 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Alphagary has more employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · MA · Leominster

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 107 employers in Leominster, MA · 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 PolyOne 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asahi Kasei Plastics Alabama 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ampacet Cartersville 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyone Seabrook TX 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brainin Advance Industries 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE MC1 MED - MEDWAY 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGSP-W952 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conformis Wilmington 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Affordable Interior Systems INC. 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #16 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2964 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Coherent Inc. Santa Clara 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McIntosh Distribution 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allegheny Construction Specialties 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxwell Service Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE MN Department of Veterans Affairs-Central Office/Programs & Services 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosedale Green 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison County Wood Products Inc. 160 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. 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.