511110 Newspaper Publishers · Illinois

Company HQ

Arlington Heights, IL · ~145 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Company HQ runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical 511110 Newspaper Publishers workplace, earning a grade A.

Company HQ: 0.3 TCR = 39% of 511110 Newspaper Publishers BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Company HQ safety composite

Company HQ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Company HQ held a steady TCR band

Company HQ's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Arlington Heights, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P97
  • PHOTO The Gazette
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Gazette (0.1 TCR gap)

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Company HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Company HQ averages 0.3 TCR (39% of the 511110 Newspaper Publishers BLS benchmark).

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

Company HQ TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Company HQ falls in its industry

61 511110 Newspaper Publishers establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Company HQ (145 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 Company HQ
Company HQ (145 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Company HQ has more employees than the 511110 Newspaper Publishers median and a lower 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · IL · Arlington Heights

61 511110 Newspaper Publishers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington Heights, IL · 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 The Gazette 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McClatchy East 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Tribune Media Holdings Corporate 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daily Journal 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baldwin Energy Complex 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Commercial Roofing 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE FE Moran Fire Protection South 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2000 Plus Groups, Inc, d/b/a Crescent Foods 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR Mid-States Specialty Eggs, Berryville 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley's Business Solutions 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR W. C. Striegel Inc 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE KVC Kansas Olathe 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE T. G. T. Enterprises, Inc. 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Molding Corporation 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE WakeMed Brier Creek Healthplex 145 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, 2020. 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.