Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution · California

Valassis

Commerce, CA · ~304 workers · 4 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 924% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Valassis: 4.6 TCR = 924% of Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valassis safety composite

Valassis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Valassis: 4.1 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Valassis's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.1 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Commerce, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 924% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Valassis
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~304 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 (924% of the Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Valassis TCR series: 2018=4.1 · 2019=4.3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=6 · BLS 0.5

Where Valassis falls in its industry

64 Advertising material preparati establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #5 safest of 7 Advertising material preparati employers in California.

Valassis (304 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 (304 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 more employees than the Advertising material preparation service 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 6.0 6.0 9 2 0
2022 4.1 4.1 9 0 0
2019 4.3 1.1 12 4 0
2018 4.1 0.7 11 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · CA · Commerce

64 Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, 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 Impressions Direct 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metro Construction - Bld: 5356 - 01 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kitchell CEM, Inc. 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leprino Foods Lemoore East 304 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALSICO HI TEC 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Newport 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tr2 - Transportation 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Williamsport Pa Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Galland Henning Nopak 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Martinrea Industries Inc 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABB Installation Products - Ormond Beach, FL 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astronics LSI 304 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albemarle 304 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, 2019, 2018. 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.