Gravure inks manufacturing · New Jersey

Penn Color Elmwood Park

Elmwood Park, NJ · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Penn Color Elmwood Park runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Gravure inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Penn Color Elmwood Park: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Gravure inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Penn Color Elmwood Park safety composite

Penn Color Elmwood Park scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−3.7

2020→2021

Penn Color Elmwood Park injury rate improved

Penn Color Elmwood Park's TCR fell 3.7 from 3.7 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.7 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Elmwood Park, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO 1ATL Sun Chemical
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1ATL Sun Chemical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Penn Color Elmwood Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Penn Color Elmwood Park averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Gravure inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Penn Color Elmwood Park TCR series: 2020=3.7 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Penn Color Elmwood Park falls in its industry

111 Gravure inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Gravure inks manufacturing employers in New Jersey.

Penn Color Elmwood Park (25 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Penn Color Elmwood Park
Penn Color Elmwood Park (25 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Penn Color Elmwood Park has fewer employees than the Gravure inks manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · NJ · Elmwood Park

111 Gravure inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 25 employers in Elmwood Park, NJ · 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 1ATL Sun Chemical 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Group NA Beaufort, SC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Actega North America - Lincolnton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint Group 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayonne NJ 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vaspro, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Servpro of Cape May and Cumberland Counties 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Concrete Cutting Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soundview Paper Company - Elmwood Park 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kreisler Industrial Corp 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grant Industries Inc. 178 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Balsz School District-Food 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR K087-D087 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Klemm Tank Lines 53031 Indianapolis 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Metal Recyclers LTD 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Birch 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Country Bridge 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pretium Packaging - Salt Lake City 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victoria's Secret Store (644) 25 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. 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.