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

Laird

Cleveland, OH · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laird runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade A.

Laird: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laird safety composite

Laird scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Laird held a steady TCR band

Laird's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.3 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/44
  • PHOTO Avient Colorants USA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laird in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laird averages 0.8 TCR (24% 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

Laird TCR series: 2022=1.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Laird falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 44 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Ohio.

Laird (77 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Laird
Laird (77 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Laird 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
2024 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · OH · Cleveland

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, 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 Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Corporation 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teknor Color Company - Kentucky 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Industrial Polymers, LLC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zanesville Svc Ctr 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandview Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Gas Company 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR CA-General Office #5 - SCE 10 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita Service Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alltrista Plastics LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Enterprises, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0503 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0675 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa City Service Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arnel Management Company 77 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. 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.