Inks, printing, manufacturing · California

Sun Chemical Plates Concord

Concord, CA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Chemical Plates Concord runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Inks, printing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sun Chemical Plates Concord: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical Plates Concord safety composite

Sun Chemical Plates Concord scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−4.1

2016→2021

Sun Chemical Plates Concord injury rate improved

Sun Chemical Plates Concord's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325910 · Concord, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Ink Systems Inc
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ink Systems Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Chemical Plates Concord in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical Plates Concord averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Inks, printing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical Plates Concord TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical Plates Concord falls in its industry

111 Inks, printing, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Inks, printing, manufacturing employers in California.

Sun Chemical Plates Concord (26 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Plates Concord
Sun Chemical Plates Concord (26 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical Plates Concord has fewer employees than the Inks, printing, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2016 4.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325910 · CA · Concord

111 Inks, printing, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 201 employers in Concord, CA · 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 Ink Systems Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nazdar SourceOne New Jersey 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clover Imaging Group LLC - Ithaca, MI (Union St) 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston SC IW Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-01 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 403 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR AX9 Security Inc 1,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gonsalves and Santucci 1,551 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexington Clinic Marketing/Human Resources 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 05 - Eau Claire Distribution 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Power Systems Kent 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kenyon Agronomy 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWR030 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMEC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nulab Inc 26 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, 2018, 2017, 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.