Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing · Alabama

Daikin America, Inc.

Decatur, AL · ~437 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Daikin America, Inc. runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Daikin America, Inc.: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Daikin America, Inc. safety composite

Daikin America, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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

Daikin America, Inc.: 0.2 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2022

Daikin America, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 0.2 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Decatur, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Alpek Polyester USA,…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia Site (0.0 TCR gap)

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Daikin America, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Daikin America, Inc. averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Daikin America, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2017=0.2 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.4 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Daikin America, Inc. falls in its industry

644 Fluoro-polymer resins manufact establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 17 Fluoro-polymer resins manufact employers in Alabama.

Daikin America, Inc. (437 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Daikin America, Inc.
Daikin America, Inc. (437 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Daikin America, Inc. has more employees than the Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing median and a lower 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
2022 1.1 0.3 4 0 0
2021 2.4 1.4 9 1 2
2020 0.7 0.4 0 3 0
2019 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2018 0.7 0.7 3 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 0 1 0
2016 0.2 0.2 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · AL · Decatur

644 Fluoro-polymer resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 239 employers in Decatur, AL · 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 Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia Site 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lubrizol La Porte 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AOC Tennessee Resins 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sekisui Specialty Chemicals America,LLC. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AL006 Brewton Bleach Board 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Shipyards Alabama, LLC 436 FTE
STATE-SIZE 866 436 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dorsey Trailer, LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain - Decatur 1,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur processing plant 885 FTE
CITY-NEAR ULA-Decatur 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Fresh Plant 671 FTE
NAT-TCR Welch Sign 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OIE 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TEK Construction Services, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TAC Air - TYS 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MAU Internal Staff 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Us Mint Philadelphia 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boardman or West (Main) 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Ambulance (Gold Cross Rochester) 437 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.