Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) · Illinois

Printing Arts

Broadview, IL · ~136 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Printing Arts runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade D.

Printing Arts: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Printing Arts safety composite

Printing Arts scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Printing Arts: 3.9 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2019

Printing Arts's TCR rose 3.7 from 3.9 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Broadview, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #128/145
  • PHOTO Ross Printing, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross Printing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Printing Arts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Printing Arts averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Printing Arts TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Printing Arts falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 145 Offset printing (except books, employers in Illinois.

Printing Arts (136 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Printing Arts
Printing Arts (136 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Printing Arts has more employees than the Offset printing (except books, printing 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
2019 7.6 3.5 11 0 0
2018 5.1 2.9 7 0 0
2017 3.9 1.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · IL · Broadview

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 56 employers in Broadview, IL · 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 Ross Printing, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spangler Graphics 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nosco-Gurnee North 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jondo LTD - NY 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 71E - Northern N - IL Electric Ops 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Electric Ops 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crestwood 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2000 Plus Groups, Inc. DBA Crescent Foods 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure's Food Specialties LLC 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mullins Food Products 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch LLC 397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Principal Manufacturing 363 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2105 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Daniel Jonathan Stowe Conservancy (Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JH Carr 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Edinburg Nursing and Rehabiliation Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richardsons 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Hills Chrysler-Jeep Dodge Inc 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake Chemical - Gallman 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2858 136 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.