Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) · New York

Tapecon, Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~112 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tapecon, Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) workplace, earning a grade C.

Tapecon, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tapecon, Inc. safety composite

Tapecon, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Tapecon, Inc.: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Tapecon, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #64/106
  • PHOTO LL PRINTERS CARLSBAD…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LL PRINTERS CARLSBAD, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tapecon, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tapecon, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS benchmark).

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

Tapecon, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Tapecon, Inc. falls in its industry

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (exc establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 106 Print shops, flexographic (exc employers in New York.

Tapecon, Inc. (112 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tapecon, Inc.
Tapecon, Inc. (112 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Tapecon, Inc. has more employees than the Print shops, flexographic (except printi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 3 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2022 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 4 0 0
2017 2.6 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · NY · Buffalo

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 LL PRINTERS CARLSBAD, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Circle Graphics - Wooster DBA Metro Media Technologies 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR InTech Integrated Marketing Services, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Printing House, LTD 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beak & Skiff Apple Farms, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mamais Contracting Corp 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structural Services of New York 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7207_16529 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR California Fresh Market - SLO 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 10650 Midtown Atlanta 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 179 - Coldwater 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 265 - Evergreen Park IL 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AmeriLux International, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Breakthru Beverage Illinois, LLC. Lexington 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany Health and Rehabilitation 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Focused Care at Beechut 112 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, 2020, 2017. 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.