ALL printing operations including digital printing · North Carolina

Durham (Litho)

Durham, NC · ~125 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Durham (Litho) runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical ALL printing operations including digital printing workplace, earning a grade A.

Durham (Litho): 0.9 TCR = 27% of ALL printing operations including digital printing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Durham (Litho) safety composite

Durham (Litho) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2022

Durham (Litho) injury rate improved

Durham (Litho)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #14/92
  • PHOTO North Building
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Building (0.0 TCR gap)

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Durham (Litho) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Durham (Litho) averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the ALL printing operations including digital printing BLS benchmark).

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

Durham (Litho) TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Durham (Litho) falls in its industry

2,001 ALL printing operations includ establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 92 ALL printing operations includ employers in North Carolina.

Durham (Litho) (125 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Durham (Litho)
Durham (Litho) (125 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Durham (Litho) has more employees than the ALL printing operations including digita median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2018 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · NC · Durham

2,001 ALL printing operations including digital printing 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 North Building 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenwel Printers, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Dearborn 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Marketing International, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE KGPCo Services, LLC dba Circet USA - Raleigh 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&C Boiler Sales & Service Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arcadia Farms dba Arcadia Beverage Company, LLC 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Everest-Textile USA LLC 125 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 Independence IDC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orthopaedic Specialty Group, P.C. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RMR Driver Services - Laredo 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Buildes of Amarillo, Inc. 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Dam West 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE SB-SB-SUNBELT 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Based Services 125 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.