Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers · South Dakota

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen

Aberdeen, SD · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen: 6.2 TCR = 281% of Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen safety composite

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen: 0.9 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen's TCR rose 10.5 from 0.9 in 2023 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423410 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 281% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO Cole Papers Inc. Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cole Papers Inc. Mandan (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen averages 6.2 TCR (281% of the Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen falls in its industry

13 Photofinishing equipment merch establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen (17 employees, TCR 6.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 0100200300 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Fujifilm Holdings America Corporation, Cypress CACole Papers Sioux FallsFUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation- Hanover Park, ILRapidView, LLCFujifilm Holdings America CorporationFujifilm North America Corporation, Cypress, CAW. Schiller & Co., Inc.FUJIFILM North America Corporation- Hanover Park, ILCole Papers FargoCole Papers Inc Aberdeen
Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen (17 employees, TCR 6.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Cole Papers Inc Aberdeen has fewer employees than the Photofinishing equipment merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 11.4 5.7 2 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423410 · SD · Aberdeen

13 Photofinishing equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Cole Papers Inc. Mandan 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fujifilm Holdings America Corporation, Cypress CA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cole Papers Fargo 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BNY Warehouse Location 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aurora 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Manufacturing, LLC - Humboldt 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Larson Cable Trailers 601 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDSIU 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Petersburg 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Woody Springs 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Home2 Suites 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6329 6.2 TCR

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.