Printing inks manufacturing · Wisconsin

Sun Chemical Menasha

Menasha, WI · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical Menasha runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Printing inks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sun Chemical Menasha: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Printing inks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical Menasha safety composite

Sun Chemical Menasha scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Sun Chemical Menasha: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.02× in 2024

Sun Chemical Menasha's TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Menasha, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO St Paul
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St Paul (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical Menasha in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical Menasha averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Printing inks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical Menasha TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical Menasha falls in its industry

111 Printing inks manufacturing establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Printing inks manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Sun Chemical Menasha (34 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Sun Chemical Menasha
Sun Chemical Menasha (34 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical Menasha has fewer employees than the Printing inks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · WI · Menasha

111 Printing inks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 55 employers in Menasha, WI · 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 St Paul 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INX International Ink Co. (5800) 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Chemical Kankakee 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INX International Ink Co. (5900) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Drumlin Dairy, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merrillan East Coating 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant-5D 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faith Technologies 2,712 FTE
CITY-NEAR LSC Communications Menasha Print 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Book Company - Menasha 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transcontinental Packaging Menasha 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Just Born Incorporated 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St Elizabeth Healthcare Covington 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sands Construction 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Baton Rouge La - 848 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Children's Hospital Colorado at Uptown,Denver 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wis-Pak of Dyersburg 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Air Parts 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fleet 34 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, 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.