The injectivity of the commutant mapping \(\gamma _T\) of asymptotically nonvanishing contractions T was considered by G. P. Gehér and L. Kérchy in 2011. In particular, they proved that \(\gamma _T\) can be injective for contractions with a nontrivial stable space. In this paper it is proved that if a contraction T is such that \(I-T^*T\) or \(I-TT^*\) is of trace class \(\mathfrak S_1\) , then \(\gamma _T\) is injective if and only if T is of class \(C_{1\cdot }\) , that is, the stable space of T is the zero space. Example of a contraction T is given such that \(I-T^*T\) and \(I-TT^*\) are of Schatten–von Neumann class \(\mathfrak S_p\) for every \(p>1\) , the stable space of T is not trivial and \(\gamma _T\) is injective. Some relationships with normal operators with respect to the injectivity of the commutant mapping are also considered.