Direct mail advertising services · Washington

Valassis Seattle

Auburn, WA · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valassis Seattle runs at 1008% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Direct mail advertising services workplace, earning a grade F.

Valassis Seattle: 5.0 TCR = 1008% of Direct mail advertising services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valassis Seattle safety composite

Valassis Seattle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 Seattle: 4.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2017

Valassis Seattle's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.8 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Auburn, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 1008% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK P17
  • PHOTO UMS Brookfield
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UMS Brookfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valassis Seattle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valassis Seattle averages 5.0 TCR (1008% 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 Seattle TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=5.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Valassis Seattle falls in its industry

64 Direct mail advertising servic establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Valassis Seattle (50 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Seattle
Valassis Seattle (50 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Valassis Seattle 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
2017 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · WA · Auburn

64 Direct mail advertising services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 166 employers in Auburn, WA · 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 UMS Brookfield 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Mail Presort 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR UMS Madison 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impressions Direct 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hyer Farms 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Northwest 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronze Star Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&L Farm Pasco - Burbank 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA001 4,392 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zones, LLC 1,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muckleshoot Casino 1,616 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muckleshoot Indian Tribe 1,367 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Lloyd 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JESSUP, MD (Baltimore) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Plastics Little Rock 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Laureldale 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Camdenton Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of California Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06- Knoxville, TN 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - Ft. Lauderdale, FL 50 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: 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.