Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Illinois

KB Publishing Inc,

South Holland, IL · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KB Publishing Inc, runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade C.

KB Publishing Inc,: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KB Publishing Inc, safety composite

KB Publishing Inc, scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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)
D 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−4.0

2016→2019

KB Publishing Inc, injury rate improved

KB Publishing Inc,'s TCR fell 4.0 from 4.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=4.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · South Holland, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #84/145
  • PHOTO D&K Printing Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D&K Printing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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KB Publishing Inc, in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KB Publishing Inc, averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

KB Publishing Inc, TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=4 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where KB Publishing Inc, falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 145 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Illinois.

KB Publishing Inc, (23 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 KB Publishing Inc,
KB Publishing Inc, (23 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

KB Publishing Inc, has fewer employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IL · South Holland

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 57 employers in South Holland, IL · 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 D&K Printing Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yorke 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crago, Inc. dba Printing Center USA 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BLUE SPRINGS PLANT 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7930 SOUTH HOLLAND PCS 1,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carl Buddig & Company-50 West Taft Drive 1,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ed Miniat LLC 728 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTH HOLLAND (ILSHL) 496 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Tenet Florida Med Ctr Evs 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-WIMIL51 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Exide Technologies 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 20 - Orange Avenue 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wendy's Store #346 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denny's Store #316 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grandy's Store #187 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Final Mile BHAM AL 23 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: 2019, 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.