Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · Kansas

Allen Press

Lawrence, KS · ~140 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Allen Press runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Allen Press: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Allen Press safety composite

Allen Press scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2018→2023

Allen Press injury rate improved

Allen Press's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.9 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.9 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Lawrence, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/26
  • PHOTO Cereus Graphics, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cereus Graphics, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Allen Press in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Allen Press averages 4.9 TCR (148% 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

Allen Press TCR series: 2018=2.9 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Allen Press falls in its industry

2,001 Periodicals commercial printin establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 26 Periodicals commercial printin employers in Kansas.

Allen Press (140 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Allen Press
Allen Press (140 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Allen Press has more employees than the Periodicals commercial printing (except median and a higher 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
2023 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.1 4.7 12 1 0
2018 2.9 2.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · KS · Lawrence

2,001 Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, KS · 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 Cereus Graphics, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECM Princeton 11-PL MN 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Printgraphics 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grandville Printing Company 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BAADER Food Systems USA, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hutchinson-Mayrath Clay Center 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 998 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capital Trucking, LLC 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 484 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Morgan County Rural Electric Association 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 8615 Repair Liquidation Center 8615 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prest-O-Fit Manufacturing, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Revere Mechanical, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwest Erosion Control, Inc 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Careone Harmony Village at Paramus 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wyant Woods Healthcare Center 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE S. M. Wilson & Co 140 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.