Printing, engraving, on paper products · Connecticut

Palmas Printing

Guilford, CT · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmas Printing runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing, engraving, on paper products workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmas Printing: 5.9 TCR = 179% of Printing, engraving, on paper products BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmas Printing safety composite

Palmas Printing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Palmas Printing held a steady TCR band

Palmas Printing's TCR held near 0.3 from 8.7 in 2018 to 9.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Guilford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 179% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #19/22
  • PHOTO Dallas Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dallas Manufacturing Network (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmas Printing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmas Printing averages 5.9 TCR (179% of the Printing, engraving, on paper products BLS benchmark).

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

Palmas Printing TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Palmas Printing falls in its industry

2,001 Printing, engraving, on paper establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #19 safest of 22 Printing, engraving, on paper employers in Connecticut.

Palmas Printing (35 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Palmas Printing
Palmas Printing (35 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Palmas Printing has fewer employees than the Printing, engraving, on paper products 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 9.0 3.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.7 2.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · CT · Guilford

2,001 Printing, engraving, on paper products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 41 employers in Guilford, CT · 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 Dallas Manufacturing Network 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx Office DC Manufacturing Plant 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Total Label USA 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Webb Communications, Inc. - Maynard Street 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Progressive Sheetmetal LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocky Mountain Fiber Plus, LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Ridgefield 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works and Facilities 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR VNACHC Guilford 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Care Plus, Inc. - Guilford 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - Guilford 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR B W Bishop & Sons Inc 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Stearns Plant 1 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AR FRT - Van Buren 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jaynes Structures, Inc. - Albuquerque, NM 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-216-Pottery Barn 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE allnex USA Inc - Kalamazoo 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reagent Chemical - White Flyer - Knox 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE 60549 - Capstone Tractor Supply Franklin 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Rebar Nufab - Slidell Louisiana 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.