Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Connecticut

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives)

Torrington, CT · ~191 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

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives): 3.0 TCR = 90% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) safety composite

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives): 3.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2018

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives)'s TCR rose 1.4 from 3.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Torrington, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Henkel U.S Operations
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkel U.S Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in Connecticut.

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) (191 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives)
Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) (191 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Dymax Corporation (HQ & Adhesives) has more employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 4.4 4.4 7 2 0
2017 1.6 0.5 2 1 0
2016 3.0 1.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · CT · Torrington

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 87 employers in Torrington, CT · 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 Henkel U.S Operations 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kent Manufacturing Company 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siroflex, a company of Bostik, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copps Industries 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mohawk Northeast 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electro-Methods, INc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE 081666-DANBURY PO 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (540) 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Entire Company 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Industries, Inc. 783 FTE
NAT-TCR Duvall Road 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AC Corporation - Winston-Salem 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Tooling & Manufacturing, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ug2 - 220 Wit 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Charles (Lalkc) 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melbourne (Flmel) 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Luis Obispo (Caslo) 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennett 191 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: 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.