Photographic chemicals manufacturing · Massachusetts

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc

Westborough, MA · ~98 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Photographic chemicals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc: 2.5 TCR = 77% of Photographic chemicals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc safety composite

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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)
F 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325992 · Westborough, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 77% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO Eastman Kodak Compan…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eastman Kodak Company- Eastman Business Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc averages 2.5 TCR (77% of the Photographic chemicals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2 · 2022=11.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc falls in its industry

68 Photographic chemicals manufac establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc (98 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0200400600 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc
Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc (98 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kayaku Advanced Materials, Inc has fewer employees than the Photographic chemicals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 11.5 10.5 3 9 0
2021 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325992 · MA · Westborough

68 Photographic chemicals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 67 employers in Westborough, MA · 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 Eastman Kodak Company- Eastman Business Park 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EKC Columbus GA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSH Rochester Media Site 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSH Colorado Site 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cresco Labs - Uxbridge 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westfield Gas and Electric Light Department 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE NER Construction Management 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Brothers Masonry 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Site Services 3,950 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanofi Westborough 613 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cumberland Farms - Westboro Distribution Center 562 FTE
NAT-TCR Titan Electric Southeast LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Olympia Plumbing Corp 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Munters Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 5484 - Freedom Drive 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cosmo Cabinets LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Baraboo 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pemberton Davis Electric 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3273 - Tallahassee FL State U 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.