Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturing · South Carolina

Ascend Materials Materials

Greenwood, SC · ~314 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend Materials Materials runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ascend Materials Materials: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend Materials Materials safety composite

Ascend Materials Materials scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Ascend Materials Materials held a steady TCR band

Ascend Materials Materials's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.3 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.3 · 2021=0.7 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325220 · Greenwood, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO FiberVisionsProducts…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~314 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FiberVisionsProducts Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascend Materials Materials in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend Materials Materials averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Ascend Materials Materials TCR series: 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.7 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ascend Materials Materials falls in its industry

68 Acrylic fibers and filaments m establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Acrylic fibers and filaments m employers in South Carolina.

Ascend Materials Materials (314 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 167 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascend Materials Materials
Ascend Materials Materials (314 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 167 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Ascend Materials Materials has more employees than the Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturi median and a lower 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
2023 0.5 0.3 2 0 0
2021 0.7 0.3 2 0 0
2020 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325220 · SC · Greenwood

68 Acrylic fibers and filaments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 102 employers in Greenwood, SC · 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 FiberVisionsProducts Incorporated 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Spruance Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hexcel Salt Lake City Carbon Fibers 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hexcel Corporation 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1144 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1748 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1164 314 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4487 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Self Regional Healthcare 2,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lander University 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR GREENWOOD LAURENS PDCA SC 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capsugel 693 FTE
NAT-TCR Bennett Construction Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Chemical Company 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro City of Industry 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper- Specialty Products 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABB Electrical Installation products 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE HOACNY-BF 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health - KPR-US, LLC 314 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9095-KOA 314 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: 2023, 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.