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

Norac Additives, LLC

Helena, AR · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norac Additives, LLC runs at 48% 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.

Norac Additives, LLC: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norac Additives, LLC safety composite

Norac Additives, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Norac Additives, LLC: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Norac Additives, LLC's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Helena, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO Sealed air Lenoir
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sealed air Lenoir (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norac Additives, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norac Additives, LLC averages 1.6 TCR (48% 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

Norac Additives, LLC TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Norac Additives, LLC falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Norac Additives, LLC (49 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Norac Additives, LLC
Norac Additives, LLC (49 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Norac Additives, LLC has fewer 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · AR · Helena

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Helena, AR · 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 Sealed air Lenoir 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electric Cable Compounds 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shawano Recycling Center 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PolyOne Corporation Terre Haute Facility 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Entergy Little Rock Data Center 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy Arkla - Little Rock Lyons 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs - FAYETTEVILLE - OMI 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Continential Carpentry, LLC 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas New #2 Helena 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Envirotech Chemical Services 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Initiators, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Helena Regional Medical Center 68 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Raleigh- Planning & Development Services 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 53EE 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR P Tool & Die Co., Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Guhring Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Grange Crane Service, Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steinbeck Peninsula Equine Clinics 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Lake Bluff- Fire 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawaiian Host LLC 49 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.