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

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden

Holden, MA · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade A.

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden safety composite

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden held a steady TCR band

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.0 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Holden, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Avient Corporation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avient Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden averages 0.8 TCR (23% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Massachusetts.

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden (84 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden
Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden (84 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden has more employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a lower 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
2024 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · MA · Holden

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 13 employers in Holden, MA · 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 Avient Corporation 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teknor Color Company - Kentucky 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laird 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtrusion-TX, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mystic 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windover Construction 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE HWE Stoughton Insulation 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE James W. Flett Co., Inc 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holden Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Holden 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Worcester, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holden MB 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Sarasota 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HB Trenchless 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Exchange LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DuPont Cooper River 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fleet Feet Incorporated, LLC 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brisbane Pec 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bbs - Schenectady 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-VA Service 84 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.