Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Kansas

Star Signs

Lawrence, KS · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Signs runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Star Signs: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Signs safety composite

Star Signs scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Star Signs: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 4.02× in 2024

Star Signs's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Lawrence, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Welch Sign
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welch Sign (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Signs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Signs averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Star Signs TCR series: 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Star Signs falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Kansas.

Star Signs (32 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Signs
Star Signs (32 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Star Signs has fewer employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · KS · Lawrence

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, 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 Welch Sign 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DIGITAL INK LLC DBA SIGN LITE 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Czarnowski-Austell 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange PKG Favoriti 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Beef LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP CELL 6 LOADOUT 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHARP BROS SEED CO 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pishny Restoration Services 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 484 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlyle Johnson Machine Co LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beneke Wire Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CC Pollen Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Airfoils 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1848 Ctv70 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDRO Specialty Steels 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Briargate 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iron Fish Distillery LLC 32 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.