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

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc

Name: Valassis Direct Mail, Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Newark, CA · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 0.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc runs at 1294% 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 Direct Mail, Inc: 6.5 TCR = 1294% of Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc safety composite

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 Direct Mail, Inc: 4.1 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2020

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc's TCR rose 4.8 from 4.1 in 2018 to 8.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 1294% of ind

DART 3.9 DART
RANK #7/7
PHOTO Vision Integrated Gr…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vision Integrated Graphics Group LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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What this shows Valassis Direct Mail, Inc averages 6.5 TCR (1294% of the Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS benchmark).

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc TCR series: 2018=4.1 · 2020=8.9 · BLS 0.5

Where Valassis Direct Mail, Inc falls in its industry

64 Advertising material preparati establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Advertising material preparati employers in California.

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc (129 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Valassis Direct Mail, Inc 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
2020	8.9	3.9	6	3	0
2018	4.1	4.1	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · CA · Newark

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 · 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Vision Integrated Graphics Group LLC	HOBART, IN	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valassis - Commerce	COMMERCE, CA	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valassis Direct Mail, Inc.	MIAMI LAKES, FL	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UMS Madison	MADISON, WI	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MIGUEL OLIVARES & SONS	DELHI	129 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SUPERIOR AG.	DELANO	129 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Manco Ag Services	ARVIN	129 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LADWP 11791 TRUESDALE	SUN VALLEY	129 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 627	Newark	2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lucid Motors HQ	Newark	2,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon Transportation Services : OAK5	Newark	2,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - OAK5	Newark	1,865 FTE
NAT-TCR	3044 & 1559 LKQ Laporte	Laporte, IN	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gertrude Hawk Chocolates	Dunmore, PA	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Association Child Care	Colorado Springs, CO	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Manufacturing Facility	Franklin Park, IL	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Nypro Healthcare Chicago	Gurnee, IL	129 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Atlantic CommTech Corporation	Norfolk, VA	129 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Protein Conversion	Mt Pleasant, TX	129 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Augustana Mercy	Moose Lake, MN	129 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.