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

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky

Henderson, KY · ~41 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky runs at 23% 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.

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky: 0.8 TCR = 23% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky safety composite

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky held a steady TCR band

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Henderson, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Avient Colorants USA…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Teknor Color Company - Kentucky in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Teknor Color Company - Kentucky averages 0.8 TCR (23% 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

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Teknor Color Company - Kentucky falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Custom compounding (i.e., blen employers in Kentucky.

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky (41 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Teknor Color Company - Kentucky
Teknor Color Company - Kentucky (41 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Teknor Color Company - Kentucky 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
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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · KY · Henderson

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 82 employers in Henderson, KY · 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 Avient Colorants USA LLC - Holden 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Corporation 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laird 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemtrusion-TX, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murray Electric System 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Operations 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Services - Belfry 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE E H Construction LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gibbs Die Casting 995 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Hospital main campus 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deaconess Henderson Hospital 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 694 377 FTE
NAT-TCR Berkeley Concrete Pumping 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Neo Aliso Viejo 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Silicon Valley Tech Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern A-1 Services - Whitehall 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE G-FAM, Corp dba Paul Davis Restoration of Boston South & Rhode Island 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE *EHN King Of Prussia Multispecialty Ste 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willowbrook of Effingham 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE SO Goodwill Southgate 41 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.