Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing · North Carolina

Avient

Hickory, NC · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Avient runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Avient: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient safety composite

Avient scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.8

2020→2024

Avient injury rate improved

Avient's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326130 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Central
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Avient in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Avient TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient falls in its industry

160 Laminated plastics plate, rod, establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Laminated plastics plate, rod, employers in North Carolina.

Avient (72 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Avient
Avient (72 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Avient has more employees than the Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2020 2.8 1.4 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326130 · NC · Hickory

160 Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 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 Central 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gehr Plastics, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Skins Facility 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilsonart LLC - Temple North 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terrell and Johmmy Williams 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toney Lumber Company, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Operations Center 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE French Broad Electric Membership Corporation - Headquarters 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Ciocca Corvette of Atlantic City 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Food Products Group - Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Polaris Ind. MCO 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Townesplace Suites Gainesville 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bluejacket Logistics and Business Solutions 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSL-Ridgeland Place 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acousti Engineering West Palm Beach 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Wellington 72 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, 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.