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

Avient Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avient Minneapolis runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade C.

Avient Minneapolis: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient Minneapolis safety composite

Avient Minneapolis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−1.3

2022→2024

Avient Minneapolis injury rate improved

Avient Minneapolis's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.4 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Minneapolis, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Molding Products LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Molding Products LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avient Minneapolis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient Minneapolis averages 3.0 TCR (90% 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 Minneapolis TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient Minneapolis falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Minnesota.

Avient Minneapolis (51 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Minneapolis
Avient Minneapolis (51 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Avient Minneapolis has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2022 3.4 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · MN · Minneapolis

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Molding Products LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mitsubishi Chemicals Americas Inc PPD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strongwell_Bristol 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poplar 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wes Hanson Builders 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR J&L Rincon Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1532 Franklin Twp SD 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gamma Sports 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sack and Save - 104 E. Main Street 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kampack 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodstock Percussion 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE TLG-Raleigh 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods - 069 Oakland NJ 51 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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