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

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility)

Albion, MI · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade B.

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility): 1.9 TCR = 56% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) safety composite

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility): 1.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2017

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility)'s TCR rose 1.7 from 1.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Albion, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/20
  • PHOTO Asahi Kasei Plastics…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Asahi Kasei Plastics- Fowlerville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) averages 1.9 TCR (56% 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

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 20 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Michigan.

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) (98 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility)
Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) (98 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Clariant Plastics & Coatings USA Inc. (Albion facility) 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
2017 2.7 1.8 3 0 0
2016 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · MI · Albion

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 21 employers in Albion, MI · 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 Asahi Kasei Plastics- Fowlerville 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ampacet Ohio, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ampacet 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ampacet Research & Development Center 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lansing Office 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4039-03822500-00W001 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&W MECHANICAL 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition, LLC 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knauf Insulation Plant 11 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASTER CONCEPTS INC. 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albion Baldwin Hall 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albion, MI 97 FTE
NAT-TCR ACS_OKC_OK 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bombardier Transportation - Denver - DEN 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Corp Office 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TX/NM - East TX Maintenance - 4597 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington N and R LLC dba Grandview Healthcare 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autumn Care of Mocskville 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S West Danbury, Ct 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunnking Inc. 98 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.