Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · Minnesota

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth

Duluth, MN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing workplace, earning a grade F.

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth: 8.7 TCR = 262% of Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth safety composite

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 - Duluth: 8.3 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2018

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth's TCR rose 0.6 from 8.3 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 262% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #119/121
  • PHOTO Royle Printing Succe…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royle Printing Success Way (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forum Communications Printing - Duluth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forum Communications Printing - Duluth averages 8.7 TCR (262% 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 - Duluth TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Forum Communications Printing - Duluth falls in its industry

2,001 Periodicals commercial printin establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #119 safest of 121 Periodicals commercial printin employers in Minnesota.

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth (44 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 - Duluth
Forum Communications Printing - Duluth (44 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Forum Communications Printing - Duluth has fewer 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
2018 9.0 6.0 3 0 0
2017 8.3 5.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MN · Duluth

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 · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Royle Printing Success Way 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reed Printing 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rinaldi Printing Company 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Printworks Store 701 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Dealers Warehouse Corporation-Powell 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Water Company 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SVC - Inn at the Park 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Parts Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Cottage-Collegeville,PA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 83 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sleepy Creek Farms 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rws Tx North Central Denton Child Care 44 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: 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.