Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · Minnesota

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes

Detroit Lakes, MN · ~81 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes safety composite

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes: 2.4 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2023

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes's TCR rose 7.0 from 2.4 in 2017 to 9.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Detroit Lakes, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #96/121
  • PHOTO New Excelsior Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Excelsior Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS benchmark).

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

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=6.2 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes falls in its industry

2,001 Periodicals commercial printin establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #96 safest of 121 Periodicals commercial printin employers in Minnesota.

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes (81 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes
Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes (81 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Forum Communications Printing - Detroit Lakes has more employees than the Periodicals commercial printing (except median and a higher 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
2023 9.5 7.6 5 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2021 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 5 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MN · Detroit Lakes

2,001 Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Detroit Lakes, MN · 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 New Excelsior Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nahan Printing Montgomerville PA 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Navitor Midwest - 0026-MNNO2 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin CPC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rochester Breeder Farms 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE SJ Louis Construction, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flynn Midwest - Minneapolis 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital Detroit Lakes 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Marys Hospital - Detroit Lakes 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Operations - Detroit Lakes, MN 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR BTD Manufacturing Detroit Lakes 448 FTE
NAT-TCR El Mirage 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno Grocery Outlet 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR United Envelope 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryder System, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Essendant: Miami OE 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rose Senior Living at Providence Park 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Clay Blvd (Hcb1)-Ny87 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE DMR Mechanical LLC 81 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, 2021, 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.