Acrylic resins manufacturing · Massachusetts

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA

Fitchburg, MA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Acrylic resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Acrylic resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA safety composite

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA: 0.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA's TCR rose 7.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Fitchburg, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO SUN POLYMERS Interna…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUN POLYMERS International INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Acrylic resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA falls in its industry

644 Acrylic resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Acrylic resins manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA (19 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA
Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA (19 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Synthomer Inc.- Fitchburg, MA has fewer employees than the Acrylic resins manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 7.1 7.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · MA · Fitchburg

644 Acrylic resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SUN POLYMERS International INC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DT Manufacturing 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Outdoor Solutions, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evonik Corporation 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALL ENERGY SOLAR North East 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 911-NiSource-Ludlow MA 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Douglas A King Builders, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saloomey Construction Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Teknor Apex Vermont Company 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SUN POLYMERS International INC. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amneal Brookhaven 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Penn Distribution Topton 3.5 TCR

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.