Polyester resins manufacturing · Tennessee

AOC Tennessee Colorants

Collierville, TN · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AOC Tennessee Colorants runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Polyester resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

AOC Tennessee Colorants: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Polyester resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AOC Tennessee Colorants safety composite

AOC Tennessee Colorants scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

AOC Tennessee Colorants: 3.6 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2021

AOC Tennessee Colorants's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Collierville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Evonik Corporation
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evonik Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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AOC Tennessee Colorants in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AOC Tennessee Colorants averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Polyester resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AOC Tennessee Colorants TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=7 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where AOC Tennessee Colorants falls in its industry

644 Polyester resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Polyester resins manufacturing employers in Tennessee.

AOC Tennessee Colorants (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate AOC Tennessee Colorants
AOC Tennessee Colorants (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

AOC Tennessee Colorants has fewer employees than the Polyester resins manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2021 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2018 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · TN · Collierville

644 Polyester resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 85 employers in Collierville, TN · 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 Evonik Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Materia, Inc. Huntsville Facility 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DT Manufacturing 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR POLYWOOD Headquarters 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Erwin Utilities 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denark Construction, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOSEPH Construction Company, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. S. Haren Company 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carrier Corporation (Collierville) 1,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR WTC 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orgill Corporate Office 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Collierville 517 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacks Midland 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1363 Tustin, CA 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-TX01 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WLA 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Derby Industries, LLC Anderson Location 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Women's Health at Women's Hospital 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTC Joliet 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAC Thin Films Inc. 51 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: 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.