Employer · Alabama

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL

Decatur, AL · ~78 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL: 0.0 TCR = 0% of industry BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL safety composite

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Performance Materials Decatur AL held a steady TCR band

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.0 TCR.

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/16
  • PHOTO The Goettle Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Goettle Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL falls in its industry

932 industry establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 16 industry employers in Alabama.

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL (78 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL
Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL (78 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Ascend Performance Materials Decatur AL has more employees than the industry 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · AL · Decatur

932 industry 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 The Goettle Company 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Sasol North America Westlake LA 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olin Corporation Freeport TX 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Constructors, Inc. 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Montgomery Crew Headquarters 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscaloosa Snow Mills Complex - APC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hellas Fibers 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grayson Lumber Corp. 78 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 US Foods, Inc. Rosemont 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Conway 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Matt Bowers Ford Metairie 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cintas Loc 735 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE GPI - Admin - Columbia Falls 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jennmar 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bacon By Gosh 78 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. 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.