Plastics resins, custom compounding of purchased · Ohio

Avient Corporation Norwalk

Name: Avient Corporation Norwalk Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Norwalk, OH · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Avient Corporation Norwalk runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plastics resins, custom compounding of purchased workplace, earning a grade C.

Avient Corporation Norwalk: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Plastics resins, custom compounding of purchased BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient Corporation Norwalk safety composite

Avient Corporation Norwalk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 Corporation Norwalk: 1.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.41× in 2023

Avient Corporation Norwalk's TCR rose 5.1 from 1.6 in 2020 to 6.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Norwalk, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

DART 6.8 DART
RANK #29/44
PHOTO Cherry Hill
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherry Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Cherry Hill

2.8
STAR Plastics,

2.8
SCP

2.8
Radici Plastic

2.8

What this shows Avient Corporation Norwalk averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Plastics resins, custom compounding of purchased BLS benchmark).

Avient Corporation Norwalk TCR series: 2020=1.6 · 2021=0 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient Corporation Norwalk falls in its industry

342 Plastics resins, custom compou establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 44 Plastics resins, custom compou employers in Ohio.

Avient Corporation Norwalk (60 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Avient Corporation Norwalk has fewer employees than the Plastics resins, custom compounding of p median and a higher 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
2023	6.8	6.8	4
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	1.6	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · OH · Norwalk

342 Plastics resins, custom compounding of purchased employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 60 employers in Norwalk, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cherry Hill	ELKTON, MD	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	STAR Plastics, LLC MWD	MILLWOOD, WV	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SCP	CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Radici Plastics USA, Inc	WADSWORTH, OH	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	White House Fruit Farm Inc	CANFIELD	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wholesale	SANDUSKY	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West	CLEVELAND	60 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gutknecht Construction Company	COLUMBUS	60 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fisher Titus Medical Center	Norwalk	1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR	R+L Carriers - NOR	Norwalk	387 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1986	Norwalk	365 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Borgers	Norwalk	337 FTE
NAT-TCR	Harlan County Justice Center	Harlan, KY	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	bmw of ramsey	Ramsey, NJ	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	LATICRETE International, Inc-CT	Bethany, CT	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gibbs Die Casting	Henderson, KY	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Southland Truck Group, LLC - Port Allen	Port Allen, LA	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Campbell County Courthouse	Newport, KY	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atlas Companies	Louisville, KY	60 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Champion Beverage Distributors, LLC	Augusta, GA	60 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, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.