Commercial Printing · Pennsylvania

Lancaster East

Lancaster, PA · ~689 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lancaster East runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial Printing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lancaster East: 4.8 TCR = 147% of Commercial Printing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lancaster East safety composite

Lancaster East scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−1.7

2016→2023

Lancaster East injury rate improved

Lancaster East's TCR fell 1.7 from 5.1 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #79/110
  • PHOTO Strouse
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 212 inj
  • SIZE ~689 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lancaster East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lancaster East averages 4.8 TCR (147% of the Commercial Printing BLS benchmark).

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

Lancaster East TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=6.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=6 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lancaster East falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial Printing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 110 Commercial Printing employers in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster East (689 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Lancaster East
Lancaster East (689 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Lancaster East has more employees than the Commercial Printing 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
2023 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2021 3.5 2.9 20 0 0
2020 4.4 4.1 27 0 0
2019 6.0 4.7 39 0 0
2018 4.8 3.9 32 0 0
2017 6.7 5.1 49 0 0
2016 5.1 3.7 43 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · PA · Lancaster

2,001 Commercial Printing 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 Strouse 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATIONS - 0069 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Operations, 7929 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GARLOCK Printing & Converting West 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freshpet Kitchens Plant 1 and 2 - Bethlehem 689 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleveland-Cliffs Coatesville 689 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAP2 Fulfillment Center 691 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAR-ODFL 687 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 Pace Air Service 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cameron Welding Supply 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Otto's Care Center Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Assets, Information and Services - 1869 W. Pershing Rd. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Lenox School District 122 689 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&B Group St Michael 689 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-GA 689 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5183 Knoxville Assembly 689 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.