Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books) · Illinois

Lake County Press

Waukegan, IL · ~173 workers · 2 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

Lake County Press runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books) workplace, earning a grade C.

Lake County Press: 2.7 TCR = 81% of Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake County Press safety composite

Lake County Press 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 2.67 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

−0.7

2020→2024

Lake County Press injury rate improved

Lake County Press's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.0 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.0 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Waukegan, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #82/145
  • PHOTO Rotary Forms Press Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rotary Forms Press Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake County Press in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake County Press averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books) BLS benchmark).

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

Lake County Press TCR series: 2020=3 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake County Press falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial lithographic (offse 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 #82 safest of 145 Commercial lithographic (offse employers in Illinois.

Lake County Press (173 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 Lake County Press
Lake County Press (173 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Lake County Press has more employees than the Commercial lithographic (offset) printin 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
2024 2.3 0.0 4 0 0
2020 3.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IL · Waukegan

2,001 Commercial lithographic (offset) printing (except books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 141 employers in Waukegan, 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 Rotary Forms Press Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amsterdam Printing and Litho - 0066-NYAM1 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortis Solutions Group (Merced 2050) 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panaprint Inc 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NTI National Technologies 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill & Valley, Inc. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Plastics 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avnet Chicago US34H 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukegan PSD #60 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visual Pak Waukegan 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blending & Filling 793 FTE
NAT-TCR Metalcraft Of Mayville 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Foos Fire, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrow Electric Co, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clariant Corporation South 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE M3 Cleaning Services, Inc DBA Clean Care 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 911 Production 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schmidt Construction Office 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens Court 173 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: 2024, 2020. 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.