Printing inks manufacturing · California

INX International Ink Co. (5300)

Sante Fe Springs, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

INX International Ink Co. (5300) runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

INX International Ink Co. (5300): 5.8 TCR = 175% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

INX International Ink Co. (5300) safety composite

INX International Ink Co. (5300) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

INX International Ink Co. (5300): 2.9 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2017

INX International Ink Co. (5300)'s TCR rose 5.8 from 2.9 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Sante Fe Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Sun Chemical Maumee …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Chemical Maumee Inks (0.0 TCR gap)

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INX International Ink Co. (5300) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows INX International Ink Co. (5300) averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

INX International Ink Co. (5300) TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where INX International Ink Co. (5300) falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #10 safest of 10 Printing inks manufacturing employers in California.

INX International Ink Co. (5300) (36 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 INX International Ink Co. (5300)
INX International Ink Co. (5300) (36 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

INX International Ink Co. (5300) has fewer employees than the 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
2017 8.7 2.9 2 1 0
2016 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · CA · Sante Fe Springs

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Sante Fe Springs, 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 Maumee Inks 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Coatings Co. Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Maumee Mfg. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wikoff Color Corp. - Fort Mill 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bumble Bee Foods 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Fe Springs 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Fe Springs - 306 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Chambersburg 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Conair Corporation - Rantoul 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR thyssenkrupp Industrial Services - Wentzville 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elgin 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE C.L. Smith Industrial Company 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pannell Industries, Inc. Dallas-Fort Worth District 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0055 - El Paso, Tx 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 48- Ladd (Cattani) 36 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: 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.