Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) · Arkansas

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas)

Fayetteville, AR · ~168 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) workplace, earning a grade C.

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas): 2.9 TCR = 88% of Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) safety composite

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas): 3.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas)'s TCR rose 1.1 from 3.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Fayetteville, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Arrow International,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arrow International, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS benchmark).

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

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=1.6 · 2020=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) falls in its industry

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (exc establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Print shops, flexographic (exc employers in Arkansas.

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) (168 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas)
Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) (168 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Packaging Specialties Inc. (Arkansas) has more employees than the Print shops, flexographic (except printi 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
2020 4.1 0.0 7 1 0
2018 1.6 0.0 3 0 0
2016 3.0 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · AR · Fayetteville

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 161 employers in Fayetteville, AR · 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 Arrow International, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unimac Graphics, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Villanti & Sons, Printers, Inc 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Graphic Solutions 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE QuantumClean - Phoenix East 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pradco Outdoor Brands 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0236 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper- Conway Corrugated Container Plant 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR AR-Fayetteville 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Washington Regional Med Center 2,380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Washington Regional Medical System 1,989 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayetteville Complex 786 FTE
NAT-TCR Michels Power-Neenah, WI 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Catholic Community Services-Sierra Vista 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 035k - San Antonio Tx Rntl 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CLARO / PRT - Centro Operaciones Cayey 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCH 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0025 GREENSBORO 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weed Veneer 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barn Hill Care Center 168 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.