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

PolyOne Norwalk

Norwalk, OH · ~60 workers · 4 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

PolyOne Norwalk 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.

PolyOne Norwalk: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PolyOne Norwalk safety composite

PolyOne Norwalk scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

PolyOne Norwalk: 1.6 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2019

PolyOne Norwalk's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Norwalk, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #16/44
  • PHOTO Teknor Apex Company …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teknor Apex Company - South Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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PolyOne Norwalk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PolyOne Norwalk 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

PolyOne Norwalk TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where PolyOne Norwalk falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #16 safest of 44 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Ohio.

PolyOne Norwalk (60 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 PolyOne Norwalk
PolyOne Norwalk (60 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

PolyOne Norwalk 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
2019 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · OH · Norwalk

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 · 60 employers in Norwalk, 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 Teknor Apex Company - South Carolina 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electric Cable Compounds 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEXPOL 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norac Additives, LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE White House Fruit Farm Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wholesale 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutknecht Construction Company 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Titus Medical Center 1,024 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - NOR 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1986 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borgers 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlas Carpet 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Banner McCleery 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CALAMCO 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tioga Air Heaters LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elk Grove Village Distribution Center 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ussery Printing 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Pascagoula, Ms. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canon Virginia Oakland 60 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: 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.