Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing · Ohio

Avient - Norwalk

Norwalk, OH · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avient - Norwalk runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Avient - Norwalk: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avient - Norwalk safety composite

Avient - Norwalk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 - Norwalk: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Avient - Norwalk's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Norwalk, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #19/52
  • PHOTO Industrial Plastics …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Plastics and Machine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avient - Norwalk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avient - Norwalk averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Avient - Norwalk TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Avient - Norwalk falls in its industry

644 Resins, plastics (except custo establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 52 Resins, plastics (except custo employers in Ohio.

Avient - Norwalk (58 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Avient - Norwalk
Avient - Norwalk (58 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Avient - Norwalk has fewer employees than the Resins, plastics (except custom compound median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · OH · Norwalk

644 Resins, plastics (except custom compounding purchased resins), manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Industrial Plastics and Machine 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ligonier Plant 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Epic Resins, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOCKMEIER Urethanes USA, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spring Meadow Farms 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspire Energy 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC - N Ohio 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCY 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Titus Medical Center 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - NOR 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1986 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Corning Natural Gas Corporation 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Priority Toyota Chesapeake 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Orchard Park at Southfork 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LAL 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lathrop Construction Associates 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenwood Ventures, LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Mt. Vernon IL Aquatic Zoo 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Griggs Mitchell & Alma of IL, LLC 58 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, 2022. 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.