Nylon resins manufacturing · Virginia

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc.

Colonial Heights, VA · ~43 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nylon resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Nylon resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. safety composite

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc.: 4.8 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Colonial Heights, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Circulus Riverbank, …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Circulus Riverbank, PBLLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Nylon resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=9.6 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. falls in its industry

644 Nylon resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Nylon resins manufacturing employers in Virginia.

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. (43 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc.
MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. (43 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

MGC Advanced Polymers, Inc. has fewer employees than the Nylon resins manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 9.1 6.1 1 2 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.4 3.6 2 1 0
2018 7.2 4.8 2 1 0
2017 9.6 4.8 1 3 0
2016 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · VA · Colonial Heights

644 Nylon resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, VA · 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 Circulus Riverbank, PBLLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darlington 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Global, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TenCate Advanced Composites - Morgan Hill 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tahoe Hydro 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Elkwood 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prospect Solar LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water and Sewer 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillphoenix Plant 1 767 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1424 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1424 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Heights Public Schools 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilo 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Resorts 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Plant 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Roelyn 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Chicago 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deprocessing Yard 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engel Diversified Ind., Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.M. Canty, Inc. 43 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.