Book Manufacturing and distribution · Ohio

Bookmasters inc

Ashland, OH · ~154 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bookmasters inc runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Book Manufacturing and distribution workplace, earning a grade B.

Bookmasters inc: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Book Manufacturing and distribution BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bookmasters inc safety composite

Bookmasters inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Bookmasters inc: 1.2 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2024

Bookmasters inc's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.2 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323117 · Ashland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Lakeside Book Compan…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeside Book Company - Owensville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bookmasters inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bookmasters inc averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Book Manufacturing and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Bookmasters inc TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bookmasters inc falls in its industry

116 Book Manufacturing and distrib establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Book Manufacturing and distrib employers in Ohio.

Bookmasters inc (154 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bookmasters inc
Bookmasters inc (154 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Bookmasters inc has fewer employees than the Book Manufacturing and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 3.4 1.7 2 2 0
2023 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2018 2.3 1.7 4 0 0
2017 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2016 1.2 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323117 · OH · Ashland

116 Book Manufacturing and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, OH · 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 Lakeside Book Company - Owensville 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR King Printing Company Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marceline 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LSC Communications Digital 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ATCPC of Ohio, LLC 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrity Kokosing Pipeline Services, LLC 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cerelia USA Bakery, inc 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Philadelphia Facility 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Howard Shockey & Sons 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Steel Brandenburg 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SinterMet, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Raleigh Operations 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE GetMed Staffing, Inc. 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Workshop of Armstrong County Inc 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Digital Air Control Inc 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE James Machine Works LLC 154 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, 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.