Industry profile · NAICS 325991
Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins
Workplace injury rates across 381 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 381
- Employers
- 3.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- BLS benchmark
- 3,578
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins average 3.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.0 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.
- 3.3
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.3
- BLS national benchmark
- 381
- employers reporting
- 3,578
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins Safety Data Reveals
The Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins sector (NAICS 325991) encompasses 381 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 3,578 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.3 is aligned with the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 1 of 8| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Plastics Stuttgart | Stuttgart, AR | F | 17.3 |
| Jabat, Inc. | Olney, IL | F | 16.9 |
| Plastics Color Corporation of NC | Asheboro, NC | F | 14.6 |
| Borealis Compunds Inc Rockport | Port Murray, NJ | F | 13.5 |
| Breen Color Concentrates | Lambertville, NJ | F | 13.0 |
| Polykemi Manufacturing LLC | Dallas, NC | F | 12.5 |
| Portland | Portland, PA | F | 12.4 |
| Wiman-Sauk Rapids | Sauk Rapids, MN | F | 12.0 |
| Mitsubishi Chemical Carbon Fiber and Composites Poway | Poway, CA | F | 11.9 |
| Infinity Polymers | Suwanee, GA | F | 11.4 |
| Spectra Color, Inc. | Corona, CA | F | 11.2 |
| Washington Penn - WAPA | Wapakoneta, OH | F | 11.2 |
| St. Joseph Platsics 5th Ave | St. Joseph, MO | F | 11.2 |
| 2967-PA20 | Nesquehoning, PA | F | 10.9 |
| PolyFlo, Inc. | Saint Clair, PA | F | 10.6 |
| Deltco of Wisconsin Inc. | Ashland, WI | F | 10.5 |
| ENCORE Recycling | Salinas, CA | F | 10.4 |
| Moeller Entity | Sparta, TN | F | 10.1 |
| A.Schulman, Inc. East Chicago | East Chicago, IN | F | 8.9 |
| Tymex Plastics Inc | Cleveland, OH | F | 8.3 |
| Deckorators Inc dba Cedar Poly | Tipton, IA | F | 8.2 |
| Universal Consumer Products INC | White Pigeon, MI | F | 8.2 |
| Foster West Corporation | North Las Vegas, NV | F | 8.0 |
| AGCCA Thorndale Plant | Downingtown, PA | F | 7.8 |
| Buckeye Polymers, Inc | Lodi, OH | F | 7.5 |
| Mesa Fully Formed, LLC - Mesa | Mesa, AZ | F | 7.5 |
| A.Schulman Carpentersville | Carpentersville, IL | F | 7.4 |
| MRC Polymers, Inc. | Chicago, IL | F | 7.4 |
| S&E Specialty Polymers, LLC | Lunenburg, MA | F | 7.4 |
| Asahi Kasei Plastics- Athens | Athens, AL | F | 7.4 |
| Hexa Americas, Inc. | Sidney, OH | F | 7.1 |
| Green Recycling | Wilmington, OH | F | 7.0 |
| RMA Waller | Waller, TX | F | 7.0 |
| West Michigan Compounding - Moore | Greenville, MI | F | 6.8 |
| McCann Plastics LLC | North Canton, OH | F | 6.8 |
| Clariant Lewiston | Lewiston, ME | F | 6.7 |
| Martin Holding LLC dba Indiana Cardinal | Evansville, IN | F | 6.7 |
| WIMAN-PRESCOTT | Prescott, WI | F | 6.6 |
| 32920 Decker Prairie | Magnolia, TX | D | 6.6 |
| KW Recycling | Troy, AL | D | 6.5 |
| Rtp Company-Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN | D | 6.5 |
| Penn Color Milton | Milton, WI | D | 6.4 |
| 2967-OH03 | Wapakoneta, OH | D | 6.3 |
| SikaAxson US | Madison Heights, MI | D | 6.2 |
| Mesa Industries, Inc. - Arkansas site | Fort Smith, AR | D | 6.1 |
| Rtp Company-Henderson | Henderson, KY | D | 6.1 |
| Leominster | Leominster, MA | D | 6.1 |
| Ft. Lauderdale | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | D | 6.0 |
| Express Managed Services | Poseyville, IN | D | 6.0 |
| Chroma Color Corporation - LAM | Lambertville, NJ | D | 6.0 |
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