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

PolyOne Center

Avon Lake, OH · ~450 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PolyOne Center runs at 10% 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.

PolyOne Center: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PolyOne Center safety composite

PolyOne Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

PolyOne Center held a steady TCR band

PolyOne Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.5 · 2017=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Avon Lake, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #2/44
  • PHOTO PolyOne
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~450 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PolyOne (0.0 TCR gap)

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PolyOne Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PolyOne Center averages 0.3 TCR (10% 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

PolyOne Center TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2017=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where PolyOne Center falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #2 safest of 44 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Ohio.

PolyOne Center (450 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 PolyOne Center
PolyOne Center (450 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

PolyOne Center 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
2017 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2016 0.5 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · OH · Avon Lake

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 · 34 employers in Avon Lake, 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 PolyOne 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Colorants USA, LLC - Albion 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sealed air Corporation danbury 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Plant 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Day Corporate 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horton 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE SB - Avon 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Tissue Services 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHIO ASSEMBLY 1,749 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lubrizol - Avon Lake 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6396-MAIN STREET CARE CENTER 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #1284 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodbridge Sales & Engineering 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Powerline, LLC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UTAS Rockford Plant 6 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakkota Corporate Brighton 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mckinney (Txmcy) 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverbend Medical Group 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powertech America 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Hospital 450 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.