Books printing and binding without publishing · Indiana

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital

Kendallville, IN · ~161 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Books printing and binding without publishing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Books printing and binding without publishing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital safety composite

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital held a steady TCR band

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.8 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.8 · 2022=1.0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323117 · Kendallville, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO East Peoria
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Peoria (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Books printing and binding without publishing BLS benchmark).

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

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital TCR series: 2021=1.8 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital falls in its industry

116 Books printing and binding wit establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Books printing and binding wit employers in Indiana.

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital (161 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital
Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital (161 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital has fewer employees than the Books printing and binding without publi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.1 1.0 4 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2021 1.8 1.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323117 · IN · Kendallville

116 Books printing and binding without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in Kendallville, IN · 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 East Peoria 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bind-Rite Services Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cenveo Hurlock 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clarks Hill 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE SunCoke Energy Indiana Harbor Operation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Functional Devices, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keystone RV Plant 19 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creative Liquid Coatings, Inc. Kendallville 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1388 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 300 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Concord Academy School Dining 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mastronardi Produce 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo TX Yard 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lufkin Svc Ctr 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2875 - Wilmington Prices Corner 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE SCFTI 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn RES and LHD 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE R Laharpe 161 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.