Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods) · Minnesota

Palmer Printing Company

Name: Palmer Printing Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Waite Park, MN · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmer Printing Company runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods) workplace, earning a grade C.

Palmer Printing Company: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Printing Company safety composite

Palmer Printing Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Palmer Printing Company: 2.4 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Palmer Printing Company's TCR rose 2.8 from 2.4 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Waite Park, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #73/121
PHOTO Ennis-Chatham
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ennis-Chatham (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Palmer Printing Company averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods) BLS benchmark).

Palmer Printing Company TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Palmer Printing Company falls in its industry

2,001 Printing, photo-offset (except establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 121 Printing, photo-offset (except employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Printing Company (45 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Palmer Printing Company has fewer employees than the Printing, photo-offset (except books, gr 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
2018	5.1	0.0	2	0	0
2017	2.4	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MN · Waite Park

2,001 Printing, photo-offset (except books, grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 82 employers in Waite Park, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ennis-Chatham	CHATHAM, VA	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GBP	MADISON, WI	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Imageworks Manufacturing, Inc.	PARK FOREST, IL	3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Continental Datalabel, Inc.- Illinois (Headquarters)	ELGIN, IL	3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	District 45	HANCOCK	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Allstar Construction Commercial Op Co, LLC	MAPLE PLAIN	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Doran Construction Company, LLC	BLOOMINGTON	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hasslen Construction Company, Inc.	ORTONVILLE	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WACOSA	Waite Park	570 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud	Waite Park	323 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buttweiler Environmental, Inc.	Waite Park	260 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. Corporate Office	Waite Park	247 FTE
NAT-TCR	Conner Stilwell OK Plant	Stilwell, OK	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atrium Post Acute Care of Two Rivers	Two Rivers, WI	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	800 - Harrisburg	Harrisburg, PA	3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hampton Inn Joplin	Joplin, MO	3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Knapheide truck equipment Orlando	Orlando, FL	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vintage Health Care Center ALF	Denton, TX	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Plover #205 Farms	Plover, WI	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center	Storrs, CT	45 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: 2018, 2017. 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.