Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods) · Illinois

Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.

Loves Park, IL · ~48 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods) workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
18
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-5051015 2016201720182019202120222023 2.13.3 Industry benchmarkRockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 323111.

Where Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. falls in its industry

2,259 Printing, digital (e.g., billb establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #145 safest of 159 Printing, digital (e.g., billb employers in Illinois.

Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. has an average TCR of 5.8, which is 175% of the industry average (3.3) for Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods). This is worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.

Between 2016 and 2023, Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s Total Case Rate improved from 2.2 to 2.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 5% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2018 saw the highest rate, at 12.7, a spread of 12.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. recorded 18 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

Verify on OSHA Establishment Search

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 323111 - Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 95,762 hours worked = 2.09 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. (this establishment) 5.78 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Commercial flexographic printing (except books) industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 323111
Illinois state avg (all industries) 4.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2021 8.7 3.5 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.7 5.1 5 0 0
2017 9.8 7.3 4 0 0
2016 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s reported OSHA injury record versus its Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 175% of the Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods) benchmark, Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc.'s safety grade?
Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.8 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Printing, digital (e.g., billboards, other large format graphical materials, high resolution) (except books, grey goods).
How many injuries has Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. reported?
Rockford Silk Screen Process, Inc. has reported 18 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.