Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Kentucky

Preferred

Louisville, KY · ~75 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Preferred runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade B.

Preferred: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred safety composite

Preferred scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Preferred: 1.1 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2023

Preferred's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.1 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Louisville, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #14/44
  • PHOTO 34-IL
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 34-IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

Preferred TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 44 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Kentucky.

Preferred (75 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Preferred
Preferred (75 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Preferred has fewer employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book median and a lower 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
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · KY · Louisville

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 34-IL 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR EK Ekcessories, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Printing 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Signs & Awnings, LLC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danny's Construction Company LLC- Kansas 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mechanical Construction, Inc - Lexington 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brown Spirnkler Corpration (Louisville, KY) 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE OVC Engineered Solutions 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR GSC : GRS - Richmond, VA 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ODW - Redlands-1 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Soji Services, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario, CA-DC 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ark Fabricators 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aperion Care Princeton 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Roofing Services, LLC Miami 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richfield Springs #210 75 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.