Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · Minnesota

1685

West St. Paul, MN · ~185 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1685 runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing workplace, earning a grade A.

1685: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1685 safety composite

1685 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1685: 0.7 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

1685's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.7 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · West St. Paul, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #12/121
  • PHOTO Garner Printing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garner Printing (0.0 TCR gap)

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1685 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1685 averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS benchmark).

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

1685 TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where 1685 falls in its industry

2,001 Periodicals commercial printin establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 121 Periodicals commercial printin employers in Minnesota.

1685 (185 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 1685
1685 (185 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

1685 has more employees than the Periodicals commercial printing (except median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 1.6 0.5 3 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MN · West St. Paul

2,001 Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 18 employers in West St. Paul, MN · 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 Garner Printing 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cottrell Printing Company, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcade Beauty-Chattanooga 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando (Moran) 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Central Energy 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Installed Building Solutions #450 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graco Inc. - French Lake 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Grove Facility 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westwood Ridge II 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1685 Marthaler 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of West St. Paul 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMS - Sanctuary West St. Paul 95 FTE
NAT-TCR John Deere Kernersville 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR RAM Construction General Contractors LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Webster 10548 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens Corning 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torrance Office 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Window Systems 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE TapeCraft Corporation 185 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. 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.