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

NCS Pearson - Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~177 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NCS Pearson - Owatonna runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade D.

NCS Pearson - Owatonna: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NCS Pearson - Owatonna safety composite

NCS Pearson - Owatonna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−4.1

2023→2024

NCS Pearson - Owatonna injury rate improved

NCS Pearson - Owatonna's TCR fell 4.1 from 7.7 in 2023 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.7 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #100/121
  • PHOTO Spectra Print
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Spectra Print (0.0 TCR gap)

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NCS Pearson - Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NCS Pearson - Owatonna averages 5.7 TCR (173% 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

NCS Pearson - Owatonna TCR series: 2023=7.7 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where NCS Pearson - Owatonna falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 121 Offset printing (except books, employers in Minnesota.

NCS Pearson - Owatonna (177 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 NCS Pearson - Owatonna
NCS Pearson - Owatonna (177 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

NCS Pearson - Owatonna has more 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
2024 3.7 1.2 2 1 0
2023 7.7 0.0 2 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MN · Owatonna

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, MN · 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 Spectra Print 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx Office Memphis TN CPC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FDC St. Louis 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Upsher-Smith Laboratories, LLC Plymouth 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Micro Control Company 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2038 Coborn's New Prague 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2035 Coborn's Cooper 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Peavine Construction Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Staypineapple South End Boston 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6501 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Globe Composite Solutions, LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6313 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 2318 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Lewisburg Corrugating), LLC 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Special Products & Mfg, inc. 177 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. 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.