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

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens

Name: Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Athens, AL · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade F.

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens: 7.4 TCR = 223% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens safety composite

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens: 3.6 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2021

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens's TCR rose 7.6 from 3.6 in 2020 to 11.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Athens, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 223% of ind

DART 8.0 DART
RANK #13/13
PHOTO S&E Specialty Polyme…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S&E Specialty Polymers, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mesa Fully For

7.5
This site

7.4
S&E Specialty

7.4
MRC Polymers,

7.4
A.Schulman Car

7.4

What this shows Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens averages 7.4 TCR (223% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2021=11.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Alabama.

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens (63 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher 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
2021	11.2	8.0	7	0	0
2020	3.6	3.6	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · AL · Athens

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 57 employers in Athens, AL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	S&E Specialty Polymers, LLC	LUNENBURG, MA	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MRC Polymers, Inc.	CHICAGO, IL	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	A.Schulman Carpentersville	CARPENTERSVILLE, IL	7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mesa Fully Formed, LLC - Mesa	MESA, AZ	7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Central Generation	GANTT	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Directional	ALABASTER	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BESDB Fairhope	FAIRHOPE	63 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ABRAMSON LLC	IRONDALE	63 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Steelcase - Athens	Athens	757 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant	Athens	457 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 661	Athens	428 FTE
CITY-NEAR	661	Athens	382 FTE
NAT-TCR	Modern Drywall, Inc.	Spokane, WA	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	White Castle System, Inc. - Rensselaer Bakery	Rensselaer, IN	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars	Le Mars, IA	7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	S03761 - WM - Elizabethtown	Elizabethtown, KY	7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Eastern Elevator Service and Sales	Windber, PA	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wilkes Elementary	Portland, OR	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cook Sales Inc. Georgia	Valdosta, GA	63 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Fresh Market 014	Spartanburg, NC	63 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.