Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing · Kansas

Southwest Publishing & Mailing

Topeka, KS · ~415 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Publishing & Mailing runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwest Publishing & Mailing: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Publishing & Mailing safety composite

Southwest Publishing & Mailing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 & Mailing: 4.3 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2022

Southwest Publishing & Mailing's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.3 in 2020 to 4.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Topeka, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK P24
  • PHOTO Broken Arrow, OK
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Broken Arrow, OK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Publishing & Mailing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Publishing & Mailing averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Publishing & Mailing TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwest Publishing & Mailing falls in its industry

361 Mail handling machinery, post establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southwest Publishing & Mailing (415 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Publishing & Mailing
Southwest Publishing & Mailing (415 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Southwest Publishing & Mailing has more employees than the Mail handling machinery, post office-typ median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2022 4.8 4.8 19 0 0
2020 4.3 4.3 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · KS · Topeka

361 Mail handling machinery, post office-type, manufacturing 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 Broken Arrow, OK 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCE-OSP Inside 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kemco Systems 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Somat Company 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TOP 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHX - Wichita 414 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jomax Construction Co., Inc. 412 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mears Installation, LLC 412 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 Russell Lands Shop and Maintenance 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JenesaisQuoi LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosemont Assisted Living & Memory Care 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 128492-Sylvania Po 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tenneco INC. 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-10D7200 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sygma San Antonio - 42802 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waynesboro 415 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: 2022, 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.