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

Avient Corp West Chicago

West Chicago, IL · ~120 workers · 2 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

Avient Corp West Chicago runs at 12% 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 Corp West Chicago: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient Corp West Chicago safety composite

Avient Corp West Chicago scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Avient Corp West Chicago: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2023

Avient Corp West Chicago's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · West Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/18
  • PHOTO Teknor Apex North Ca…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teknor Apex North Carolina Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avient Corp West Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient Corp West Chicago averages 0.4 TCR (12% 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 Corp West Chicago TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient Corp West Chicago falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 18 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Illinois.

Avient Corp West Chicago (120 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Corp West Chicago
Avient Corp West Chicago (120 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Avient Corp West Chicago 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
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · IL · West Chicago

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, IL · 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 Teknor Apex North Carolina Company 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GEON Performance Solutions 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Polymer Services, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ticona Polymers, Inc. 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ragnar Benson 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE TKC Highland 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Constructors 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 123 - Archer Western/Herzog 4 JV 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Ace Electric Inc. Fabrication/ Designs/ Engineering 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 431 18th St Nw 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Spur Energy 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergi llc 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baker Drywall San Antonio, Ltd 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPC Services Company 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Valley Post Acute Rehabilitation 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.O. Blackstone & Co., Inc. 120 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: 2023, 2022. 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.