Newspaper publishers and printing combined · Minnesota

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant

Minneapolis, MN · ~273 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant runs at 1071% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Newspaper publishers and printing combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant: 7.5 TCR = 1071% of Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS 0.7 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant safety composite

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2021→2024

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant injury rate improved

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant's TCR fell 6.7 from 10.8 in 2021 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.8 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 1071% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Engle Printing & Pub…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant averages 7.5 TCR (1071% of the Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS benchmark).

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

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant TCR series: 2021=10.8 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 0.7

Where Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant falls in its industry

61 Newspaper publishers and print establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Newspaper publishers and print employers in Minnesota.

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant (273 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant
Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant (273 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Star Tribune Media Company, LLC - Heritage Plant has more employees than the Newspaper publishers and printing combin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 4.1 2.9 7 0 0
2023 4.6 4.1 9 0 0
2022 10.6 5.5 14 9 0
2021 10.8 8.0 23 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · MN · Minneapolis

61 Newspaper publishers and printing combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Engle Printing & Publishing Co., Inc 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Central Tribune 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HCMG Wawarme Avenue 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Janesville Gazette 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZMIN 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE ISD 728 Elk River School District Handke 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina ISD #273 District Office-Edina ISD #273-Edina High School 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Finance Department 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR T R Trucking & Excavating, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 10492 Albany 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1-Eleven Logistics 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City Ks - 3304 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10546 Downtown Los Angeles 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABCO Transporation, Inc. - OCF 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles City Planning - City Hall 273 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspen Aerogel 273 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.