Newspaper publishers and printing combined · Iowa

Color Web Printers

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~104 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Color Web Printers runs at 687% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Newspaper publishers and printing combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Color Web Printers: 4.8 TCR = 687% of Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Color Web Printers safety composite

Color Web Printers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

2017→2021

Color Web Printers injury rate improved

Color Web Printers's TCR fell 1.2 from 3.8 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 687% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Odessa Amercian
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Odessa Amercian (0.1 TCR gap)

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Color Web Printers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Color Web Printers averages 4.8 TCR (687% of the Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS benchmark).

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

Color Web Printers TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=2.6 · BLS 0.7

Where Color Web Printers falls in its industry

61 Newspaper publishers and print establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Newspaper publishers and print employers in Iowa.

Color Web Printers (104 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Color Web Printers
Color Web Printers (104 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Color Web Printers has more employees than the Newspaper publishers and printing combin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 5.6 4.2 4 0 0
2019 6.3 5.3 6 0 0
2018 5.7 4.8 6 0 0
2017 3.8 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · IA · Cedar Rapids

61 Newspaper publishers and printing combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 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 Odessa Amercian 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSI Media LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Area Production Services 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff College Rd (IA001) 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thombert 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-ELPCX0720 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4129 ANTIOCH, CA 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Westminster College (Pa) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayfront Health Spring Hill 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Timber Ripley 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Marion Container 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE DCS Dayton 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groton Community Health Care Center, Inc 104 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.