Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing · North Carolina

Bell & Howell LLC

Durham, NC · ~904 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell & Howell LLC runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bell & Howell LLC: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell & Howell LLC safety composite

Bell & Howell LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Bell & Howell LLC held a steady TCR band

Bell & Howell LLC's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO Lavatec Laundry Tech…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~904 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lavatec Laundry Technology Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell & Howell LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell & Howell LLC averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bell & Howell LLC TCR series: 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bell & Howell LLC falls in its industry

361 Letter folding, stuffing, and establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Letter folding, stuffing, and employers in North Carolina.

Bell & Howell LLC (904 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bell & Howell LLC
Bell & Howell LLC (904 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bell & Howell LLC has more employees than the Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 1.9 0.4 15 0 0
2021 1.9 0.5 18 0 0
2020 1.7 0.2 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · NC · Durham

361 Letter folding, stuffing, and sealing machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 Lavatec Laundry Technology Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belanger Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma City 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WWW 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ITG Brands, LLC Production/Processing 904 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6935-CMUD-WATER 906 FTE
STATE-SIZE DLP Wilson Medical Center 907 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPT-ODFL 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Olmsted Medical Center SE Clinic 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Take Care of Sarasota 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 04-13-02 Northeast Div - Ohio Valley Region 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CareGivers America LLC Tannersville 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-IL 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30 Flatbush - HQ 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Original Mowbray's Tree Service 904 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-CSCS 904 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.