Newspaper publishers and printing combined · Pennsylvania

Lancaster County Weeklies

Lancaster, PA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lancaster County Weeklies runs at 457% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Newspaper publishers and printing combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Lancaster County Weeklies: 3.2 TCR = 457% of Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lancaster County Weeklies safety composite

Lancaster County Weeklies scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Lancaster County Weeklies held a steady TCR band

Lancaster County Weeklies's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.2 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.2 · 457% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Eagle Herald Publish…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eagle Herald Publishing (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lancaster County Weeklies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lancaster County Weeklies averages 3.2 TCR (457% of the Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS benchmark).

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

Lancaster County Weeklies TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=3.2 · BLS 0.7

Where Lancaster County Weeklies falls in its industry

61 Newspaper publishers and print establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Newspaper publishers and print employers in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster County Weeklies (35 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lancaster County Weeklies
Lancaster County Weeklies (35 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Lancaster County Weeklies has fewer employees than the Newspaper publishers and printing combin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · PA · Lancaster

61 Newspaper publishers and printing combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 450 employers in Lancaster, PA · 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 Eagle Herald Publishing 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villages Media Management - Print Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trumbull Printing 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 67110178--THE P&G PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.A.C. Mushrooms Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Oysters 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Spawning, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE PANTHER CREEK POWER OPERATING 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Health, LGH Hospital 7,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR LGHealth 7,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Hospital 6,528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Medical Group 1,436 FTE
NAT-TCR 052 Black Satchel 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Solutions : IS - SC - Tucson, AZ, USA 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-NY-Elmsford-Ridgewood Drive 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Rd 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3620 Sws of Ga-Brunswick 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Harborview 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Color, Inc. 35 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.