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

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster

Leominster, MA · ~178 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade D.

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster: 5.3 TCR = 162% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster safety composite

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2017

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster injury rate improved

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster's TCR fell 0.8 from 5.7 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Leominster, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Strongwell_Highlands
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strongwell_Highlands (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster averages 5.3 TCR (162% 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

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Massachusetts.

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster (178 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster
Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster (178 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Mexichem Specialty Compounds Leominster has more employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher 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 4.9 3.1 10 1 0
2016 5.7 3.8 8 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · MA · Leominster

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 107 employers in Leominster, 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 Strongwell_Highlands 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nupla Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warren MCPP 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KW Plastics Troy 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Callahan, Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE TransCore - T0638 - Auburn 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE 638 Auburn 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ocean Spray Middleboro Processing Facility 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Affordable Interior Systems INC. 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #16 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2964 333 FTE
NAT-TCR 0125 - Dayton, Oh 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Littleton 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington (Ilblo) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4113-41131003-R12 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trinseo LLC Michigan Operations 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft. Walton (Flftw) 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 001-DAY 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Street 178 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.