Sulfur chloride manufacturing · Alabama

Nouryon Functional Chemicals

Axis, AL · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nouryon Functional Chemicals runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sulfur chloride manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nouryon Functional Chemicals: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Sulfur chloride manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nouryon Functional Chemicals safety composite

Nouryon Functional Chemicals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

Nouryon Functional Chemicals injury rate improved

Nouryon Functional Chemicals's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.6 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325180 · Axis, AL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO WR Grace
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WR Grace (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nouryon Functional Chemicals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nouryon Functional Chemicals averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Sulfur chloride manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nouryon Functional Chemicals TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nouryon Functional Chemicals falls in its industry

418 Sulfur chloride manufacturing establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 12 Sulfur chloride manufacturing employers in Alabama.

Nouryon Functional Chemicals (103 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nouryon Functional Chemicals
Nouryon Functional Chemicals (103 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Nouryon Functional Chemicals has more employees than the Sulfur chloride 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 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2023 2.6 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325180 · AL · Axis

418 Sulfur chloride manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 12 employers in Axis, AL · 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 WR Grace 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clariant Corporation West 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMC Organometallix Carrollton Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prayon Augusta Site 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant Lowman 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capstone Building Corp. 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery AL Division 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Coatings LLC - Alabama 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Mobile 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lenzing Fibers Inc. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR TMS Axis 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amvac Chemical Corporation 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Gastonia 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JLS Automation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR National Paint Industries 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ironwood Plastics 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwest Steel Casting Company 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerrity's Supermarkets, Wyoming 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Embassy Suites 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murfreesboro Embassy Suites 103 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. 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.