Books printing and binding without publishing · Indiana

LSC Communications

Crawfordsville, IN · ~986 workers · 3 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

LSC Communications runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Books printing and binding without publishing workplace, earning a grade A.

LSC Communications: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Books printing and binding without publishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LSC Communications safety composite

LSC Communications scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1 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%).

Rising injury rate

LSC Communications: 0.8 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2020

LSC Communications's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.8 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Gasch Printing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~986 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gasch Printing (0.0 TCR gap)

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LSC Communications in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LSC Communications averages 1.4 TCR (44% 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

LSC Communications TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2019=2 · 2020=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where LSC Communications falls in its industry

116 Books printing and binding wit establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #2 safest of 6 Books printing and binding wit employers in Indiana.

LSC Communications (986 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 LSC Communications
LSC Communications (986 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2

LSC Communications has more 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
2020 1.5 1.0 15 0 0
2019 2.0 1.3 21 0 0
2017 0.8 0.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323117 · IN · Crawfordsville

116 Books printing and binding without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 66 employers in Crawfordsville, 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 Gasch Printing 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Peoria 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Book Company - Kendallville Digital 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bind-Rite Services Inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Great Dane 983 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cummins Midrange Engine Plant 990 FTE
STATE-SIZE Express Scripts Pharmacy, Inc. Whitestown, IN 982 FTE
STATE-SIZE H1 Indianapolis Campus 992 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Book Company - Crawfordsville 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel 793 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel-Indiana 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acuity Brands Lighting Inc 737 FTE
NAT-TCR Classic Wines of California 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Departamento De Desarrollo Cultural - Administracion 14214 00 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips and Jordan, Inc/Northfork Spillway Embankment 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge HealthCare Medical Group, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chestnut Hill Hospital 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Nuclear Plant 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Hospital Services 986 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avanzar Interior Technologies 986 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.