Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Ohio

Avient Colormatrix Corporation

Berea, OH · ~97 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avient Colormatrix Corporation runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Avient Colormatrix Corporation: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient Colormatrix Corporation safety composite

Avient Colormatrix Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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 Colormatrix Corporation held a steady TCR band

Avient Colormatrix Corporation's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Berea, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/58
  • PHOTO USA TX Garland Shilo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USA TX Garland Shiloh Road Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avient Colormatrix Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient Colormatrix Corporation averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Avient Colormatrix Corporation TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient Colormatrix Corporation falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 58 Industrial product finishes an employers in Ohio.

Avient Colormatrix Corporation (97 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Avient Colormatrix Corporation
Avient Colormatrix Corporation (97 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Avient Colormatrix Corporation has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · OH · Berea

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 54 employers in Berea, OH · 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 USA TX Garland Shiloh Road Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICP Construction - Andover 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Inc. Reading Manufacturing 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US FL Orlando Plant 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Layer Site 4 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spieker Company 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoot Construction - Company of Ohio 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strawser Paving Company 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR OhioGuidestone 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3639-36390001 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Browns 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crew SC Team Company 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Westlake Pipe & Fittings 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hallamore Holbrook 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bard Brachytherapy 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Packaging Services, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CVI Laser Optics 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker J Walker 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Global 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Remcon Plastics 97 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, 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.