Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Missouri

The Ovid Bell Press

Fulton, MO · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Ovid Bell Press runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade D.

The Ovid Bell Press: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Ovid Bell Press safety composite

The Ovid Bell Press scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.1

2016→2020

The Ovid Bell Press injury rate improved

The Ovid Bell Press's TCR fell 2.1 from 6.6 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Fulton, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #56/61
  • PHOTO Gateway Printing & O…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gateway Printing & Office Supply, Inc.- Edinburg, TX location (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Ovid Bell Press in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Ovid Bell Press averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

The Ovid Bell Press TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2017=9.3 · 2018=4 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where The Ovid Bell Press falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 61 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Missouri.

The Ovid Bell Press (123 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 The Ovid Bell Press
The Ovid Bell Press (123 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

The Ovid Bell Press has more employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book 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
2020 4.5 2.3 4 0 0
2019 8.3 5.5 7 2 0
2018 4.0 0.8 4 1 0
2017 9.3 7.6 8 3 0
2016 6.6 1.6 4 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MO · Fulton

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 33 employers in Fulton, MO · 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 Gateway Printing & Office Supply, Inc.- Edinburg, TX location 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Frank Publishing 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cimpress USA Manufacturing Incorporated 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR D'Andrea Visual Communications - Las Vegas 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 80B - Nuclear - Operations 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Erection Services Company, Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Optima Graphics - 0196 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&R Industries, Inc 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMEREN MISSOURI - Callaway Plant 744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fulton DC 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westminster College 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR William Woods University 251 FTE
NAT-TCR VenuWorks of Brookings, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5066 - CA Santa Ana County Jail 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR United Building Envelope Restoration, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bd Custom 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warehouse 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Rapid Response Team 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mecklenburg Health and Rehabiltiation Center 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montrose Molders 123 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.