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

RheTech Colors

Sandusky, OH · ~51 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RheTech Colors runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade B.

RheTech Colors: 2.5 TCR = 76% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RheTech Colors safety composite

RheTech Colors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2016→2024

RheTech Colors injury rate improved

RheTech Colors's TCR fell 3.4 from 7.3 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 76% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #27/44
  • PHOTO Advanced Composites …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Composites TN Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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RheTech Colors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RheTech Colors averages 2.5 TCR (76% 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

RheTech Colors TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where RheTech Colors falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #27 safest of 44 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Ohio.

RheTech Colors (51 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 RheTech Colors
RheTech Colors (51 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

RheTech Colors has fewer employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher 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 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2017 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.3 4.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · OH · Sandusky

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 · 101 employers in Sandusky, 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 Advanced Composites TN Plant 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Corporation - Lehigh Valley 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Penn - Wapakoneta 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strongwell_Chatfield 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portsmouth Service Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Gas & Oil 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 922-NiSource-Zanesville OH-Muskingum Op Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Potash PCS 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar Point 2,836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Sandusky 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAIN-FRMC1-MAIN CAMPUS 1,834 FTE
CITY-NEAR LMN Development 1,048 FTE
NAT-TCR Crider & Crider, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #172 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Team Mechanical of Texas, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vs - Il 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Falls 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 035-SGF 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennington Seed - PennPak III 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.D. Heiskell & Co. Elkhorn NE 51 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.