Surface active agents manufacturing · Tennessee

Ascent Chemicals

Cleveland, TN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ascent Chemicals runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surface active agents manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ascent Chemicals: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Surface active agents manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ascent Chemicals safety composite

Ascent Chemicals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2023→2024

Ascent Chemicals injury rate improved

Ascent Chemicals's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325613 · Cleveland, TN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P77
  • PHOTO Evonik Little Rock
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evonik Little Rock (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ascent Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ascent Chemicals averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Surface active agents manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ascent Chemicals TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ascent Chemicals falls in its industry

66 Surface active agents manufact establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ascent Chemicals (48 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ascent Chemicals
Ascent Chemicals (48 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Ascent Chemicals has fewer employees than the Surface active agents manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325613 · TN · Cleveland

66 Surface active agents manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 157 employers in Cleveland, 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 Little Rock 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Holly Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North America Flooring Sales 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Corporation Milton 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bolivar Energy Authority 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Department 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Cocke County Utility District 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chattanooga Service Center 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLEVELAND PACKERS 6,804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primary Care Cleveland 6,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whirlpool 1,544 FTE
NAT-TCR Hamilton 10494 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Siemens Logistics 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Data Security, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oswego Harbor Power 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metals Treatment Technologies, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Spline & Gear, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE H & S Enterprise / Lincoln 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Styer Transportation Co. 48 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. 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.