Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Louisiana

Mele Printing Company, LLC

Covington, LA · ~97 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mele Printing Company, LLC runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade A.

Mele Printing Company, LLC: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mele Printing Company, LLC safety composite

Mele Printing Company, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Mele Printing Company, LLC: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Mele Printing Company, LLC's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Covington, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Graphic Village Blue…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graphic Village Blue Ash (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mele Printing Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mele Printing Company, LLC averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

Mele Printing Company, LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=1 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Mele Printing Company, LLC falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Louisiana.

Mele Printing Company, LLC (97 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Mele Printing Company, LLC
Mele Printing Company, LLC (97 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Mele Printing Company, LLC has more employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book median and a lower 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
2024 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 0 1 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · LA · Covington

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 104 employers in Covington, LA · 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 Graphic Village Blue Ash 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7216_16534 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plano Facility 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & N Printing & Graphics 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmisano LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Cornerstone-Waggaman 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE AG-CON, LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dow Plaquemine LA - BSL 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company Gulf of Mexico 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a Campus of Tulane Medical Center 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Prime Industrial Access LLC - SLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USA IL Rockford Nelson Boulevard Plant 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeastern Rubber Co., Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Painless Performance Products, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fox Metro Water Reclamation District 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springdale 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manus Products Waconia 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 97 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, 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.