Direct mail advertising services · Kansas

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co.

Topeka, KS · ~365 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. runs at 594% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Direct mail advertising services workplace, earning a grade F.

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co.: 3.0 TCR = 594% of Direct mail advertising services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. safety composite

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co.: 3.2 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2021

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co.'s TCR rose 1.2 from 3.2 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 594% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P59
  • PHOTO IWCO Direct Hamburg
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~365 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IWCO Direct Hamburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. averages 3.0 TCR (594% of the Direct mail advertising services BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2019=1.4 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. falls in its industry

64 Direct mail advertising servic establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. (365 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co.
Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. (365 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. has more employees than the Direct mail advertising services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 4.3 3.2 14 1 0
2019 1.4 1.4 6 0 0
2016 3.2 1.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · KS · Topeka

64 Direct mail advertising services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, KS · 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 IWCO Direct Hamburg 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mailing Services of Pittsburgh 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrew Associates 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demar Direct 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Edgerton, Kansas 365 FTE
STATE-SIZE Textron Aviation - TAV Defense 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE 794 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 557 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Elliott Electric Supply #49 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruan Transport Corporation T-552 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Powderly 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Truck Center Indianapolis 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 712 Pear St 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at N Arizona Univ-Hot Spot 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Butler County Hospital 365 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cross Creek Medical Campus 365 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, 2019, 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.