Newspapers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing · South Dakota

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, SD · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Newspapers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing workplace, earning a grade F.

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Newspapers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls safety composite

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls held a steady TCR band

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.7 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.7 · 2018=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Cohber Press, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cohber Press, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Newspapers 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 - Sioux Falls TCR series: 2017=6.7 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls falls in its industry

2,001 Newspapers commercial printing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Newspapers commercial printing employers in South Dakota.

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls (33 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 - Sioux Falls
Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls (33 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls has fewer employees than the Newspapers commercial printing (except s 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 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2017 6.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · SD · Sioux Falls

2,001 Newspapers commercial printing (except screen) without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Cohber Press, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAUNTON MA-RETAIL 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JEB PHI INC dba PIP PRINTING 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACTION LABEL LLC 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clark Drew Construction, Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Systems Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooks Construction Services, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoven 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Hospitality Linen Service 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Developmental Services Division 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Fresh - Jilbert - Marquette - Meeske 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR General Motors Components Holdings- Lockport, NY 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Forks Herald - Production Plant 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imerys Fused Minerals Niagara Falls, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Earlington 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Feria HAR 33 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.