Adiponitrile manufacturing · Alabama

Ascend Performance Materials

Decatur, AL · ~303 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend Performance Materials runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Adiponitrile manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ascend Performance Materials: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Adiponitrile manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend Performance Materials safety composite

Ascend Performance Materials scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Ascend Performance Materials: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2019

Ascend Performance Materials's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Life Sciences : IDT …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Life Sciences : IDT - Coralville 2600 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascend Performance Materials in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend Performance Materials averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Adiponitrile manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ascend Performance Materials TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ascend Performance Materials falls in its industry

552 Adiponitrile manufacturing establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Adiponitrile manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Ascend Performance Materials (303 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascend Performance Materials
Ascend Performance Materials (303 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Ascend Performance Materials has more employees than the Adiponitrile manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019 1.1 0.6 3 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · AL · Decatur

552 Adiponitrile manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 Life Sciences : IDT - Coralville 2600 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Belle 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Porte Plant 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NATGASOLINE LLC 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sturdy Plant 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE HDT Global Tanner 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1787 - Tuscaloosa 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 938 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR NBC Sports Group : NBC Sports Philadelphia 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kw International(Tx) 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabot Microelectronics Corporation - 500 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ENWECOSN 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elite Spice: Montevideo 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middleburg Legacy Place 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Excelsior Springs Hospital 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLL Corporate Office - Pittsburgh PA 303 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.