Direct mail advertising services · California

Valassis

Newark, CA · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valassis runs at 918% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Direct mail advertising services workplace, earning a grade F.

Valassis: 4.6 TCR = 918% of Direct mail advertising services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valassis safety composite

Valassis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−3.8

2022→2023

Valassis injury rate improved

Valassis's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.5 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.5 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Newark, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 918% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Valassis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valassis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valassis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valassis averages 4.6 TCR (918% of the Direct mail advertising services BLS benchmark).

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

Valassis TCR series: 2022=6.5 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 0.5

Where Valassis falls in its industry

64 Direct mail advertising servic establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Direct mail advertising servic employers in California.

Valassis (93 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Valassis
Valassis (93 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Valassis has fewer employees than the Direct mail advertising services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2023 2.7 1.3 1 1 0
2022 6.5 4.3 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · CA · Newark

64 Direct mail advertising services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 92 employers in Newark, 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 Valassis 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UMS Wausau 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Spirit Mail Solutions 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlestown 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC-MAN 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A & T 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 627 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lucid Motors HQ 2,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : OAK5 2,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OAK5 1,865 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilbur L. Anderson, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gund Company 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Element Service Group Mechanical, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Pools Latham 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Lake City 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flame Furnace Company 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voss Equipment, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Bay Inn LLC 93 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: 2023, 2022. 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.