Commercial Printing · Pennsylvania

Lancaster West

Lancaster, PA · ~642 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Lancaster West runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial Printing workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
122
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Lancaster West's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Lancaster West's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-20246 2016201720182019202020212023 03.3 Industry benchmarkLancaster West TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 323111.

Where Lancaster West falls in its industry

2,259 Commercial Printing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 120 Commercial Printing employers in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster West has an average TCR of 3.0, which is 92% of the industry average (3.3) for Commercial Printing. This is better than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Lancaster West

Between 2016 and 2023, Lancaster West's Total Case Rate improved from 4.4 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 5.3, a spread of 5.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Lancaster West recorded 122 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Lancaster West's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 323111 - Commercial Printing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 198,803 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Lancaster West (this establishment) 3.03 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Commercial flexographic printing (except books) industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 323111
Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) 5.06 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Lancaster West to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.2 3.0 16 0 0
2020 1.8 1.3 10 0 0
2019 5.3 4.6 31 0 0
2018 2.3 1.8 14 0 0
2017 4.3 3.1 26 0 0
2016 4.4 2.9 25 2 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Lancaster West's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Commercial Printing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 92% of the Commercial Printing benchmark, Lancaster West reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Commercial Printing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Lancaster West's safety grade?
Lancaster West has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Commercial Printing.
How many injuries has Lancaster West reported?
Lancaster West has reported 122 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.