Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · North Dakota

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo

Fargo, ND · ~132 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo runs at 155% 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 - Fargo: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo safety composite

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.8

2016→2023

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo injury rate improved

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.2 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=8.0 · 2018=4.8 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Bowling Green Facility
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowling Green Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forum Communications Printing - Fargo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forum Communications Printing - Fargo averages 5.1 TCR (155% 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 - Fargo TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=8 · 2018=4.8 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Forum Communications Printing - Fargo falls in its industry

2,001 Periodicals commercial printin establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Forum Communications Printing - Fargo (132 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 - Fargo
Forum Communications Printing - Fargo (132 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Forum Communications Printing - Fargo 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 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2022 4.4 1.1 4 0 0
2021 6.1 5.1 4 2 0
2018 4.8 4.0 6 0 0
2017 8.0 7.2 10 0 0
2016 5.2 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · ND · Fargo

2,001 Periodicals commercial printing (except screen) without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 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 Bowling Green Facility 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intelligencer Printing Co. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Mulligan Printing Company 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FGS WI LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ICS, Inc 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1896 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3051 Cash Wise North Bismarck 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE 373058-FAR-PRAIRIEWOOD STA 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR Abbey Paving & Sealcoating Co., Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Fabrics Baton Rouge 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HDT Global 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Appleton/Milan Elementary 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lencyk Masonry Co., Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE California 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Boy Nut Corp 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne's Roofing, Inc. 132 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, 2016. 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.