Bronze printing inks manufacturing · Illinois

Frye-Williamson Press Inc

Springfield, IL · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frye-Williamson Press Inc runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bronze printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Frye-Williamson Press Inc: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Bronze printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frye-Williamson Press Inc safety composite

Frye-Williamson Press Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Frye-Williamson Press Inc: 5.1 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2022

Frye-Williamson Press Inc's TCR rose 6.4 from 5.1 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Springfield, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Flint Group Packagin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flint Group Packaging Inks North America Corporation (0.6 TCR gap)

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Frye-Williamson Press Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frye-Williamson Press Inc averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Bronze printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Frye-Williamson Press Inc TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2022=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Frye-Williamson Press Inc falls in its industry

111 Bronze printing inks manufactu establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Bronze printing inks manufactu employers in Illinois.

Frye-Williamson Press Inc (18 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Frye-Williamson Press Inc
Frye-Williamson Press Inc (18 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Frye-Williamson Press Inc has fewer employees than the Bronze printing inks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 11.5 11.5 1 0 0
2016 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · IL · Springfield

111 Bronze printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Flint Group Packaging Inks North America Corporation 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chromatic Technologies, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wikoff Color Corp. - Fort Mill - Plant 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elmwood Park Facility 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Hollow, LLC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Top of Iowa II.Barton.Winnebego 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - GS Meter Shop and Engr 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Natomas Sacramento 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0743 - Alpharetta Ga Whse 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Maverick Cutting and Breaking 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Winn Meat 8.3 TCR

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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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