Bronze printing inks manufacturing · California

Ink Systems Inc

Commerce, CA · ~118 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ink Systems Inc runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bronze printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ink Systems Inc: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Bronze printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ink Systems Inc safety composite

Ink Systems Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Ink Systems Inc: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2023

Ink Systems Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Commerce, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Sun Chemical Plates …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Chemical Plates Concord (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ink Systems Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ink Systems Inc averages 1.5 TCR (45% 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

Ink Systems Inc TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ink Systems Inc falls in its industry

111 Bronze printing inks manufactu establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Bronze printing inks manufactu employers in California.

Ink Systems Inc (118 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ink Systems Inc
Ink Systems Inc (118 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ink Systems Inc has more employees than the Bronze printing inks manufacturing median and a lower 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
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 3.2 0.8 4 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · CA · Commerce

111 Bronze printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, CA · 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 Sun Chemical Plates Concord 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nazdar SourceOne New Jersey 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Imaging Group LLC - Ithaca, MI (Union St) 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston SC IW Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prestige Farming inc 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cipponeri Orchards 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHC Facilities, Inc. dba The Plug DTLA 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plug Connection - Lodi 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Red Oak 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Caterpillar Morton - VSI 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Tech Construction, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Springs Sheltered Workshop 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Putnam #189 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clay #182 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sjoberg Tool & Manufacturing Corp. 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Orleans Iron Works, L.L.C. 118 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, 2020. 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.