Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) · Connecticut

Merritt Big Color

East Hartford, CT · ~16 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merritt Big Color runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade F.

Merritt Big Color: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merritt Big Color safety composite

Merritt Big Color scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.3

2018→2021

Merritt Big Color injury rate improved

Merritt Big Color's TCR fell 3.3 from 10.7 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.7 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · East Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/22
  • PHOTO ColorHub
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ColorHub (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merritt Big Color in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merritt Big Color averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Merritt Big Color TCR series: 2018=10.7 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Merritt Big Color falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Offset printing (except books, employers in Connecticut.

Merritt Big Color (16 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Merritt Big Color
Merritt Big Color (16 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Merritt Big Color has fewer employees than the Offset printing (except books, 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
2021 7.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 11.8 11.8 2 0 0
2018 10.7 10.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · CT · East Hartford

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in East Hartford, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ColorHub 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NPC South Claysburg 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olson Visual Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superpac Incorporated 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Town of East Lyme Water/Sewer 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barkhamsted Headquarters 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Waterford Utility Commission 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pratt & Whitney East Hartford 9,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cyient, Inc. 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cyient, Inc (US combined) 1,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR DDS North Region 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Health and Rehab 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SWR552 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City Hampton Inn 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Liverpool DC00055 7.5 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.