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

Valassis

Auburn, WA · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valassis runs at 1678% 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: 8.4 TCR = 1678% of Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valassis safety composite

Valassis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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: 4.5 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2023

Valassis's TCR rose 3.2 from 4.5 in 2020 to 7.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× 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 8.4 · 1678% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK P5
  • PHOTO Pittsburgh Mailing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pittsburgh Mailing (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 8.4 TCR (1678% 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: 2020=4.5 · 2021=13 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 0.5

Where Valassis falls in its industry

64 Advertising material preparati establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Valassis (49 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 (49 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 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 7.7 5.1 3 0 0
2021 13.0 13.0 9 0 0
2020 4.5 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · WA · Auburn

64 Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution 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 Pittsburgh Mailing 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR David J. Thompson Mailing Corp. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Impact Winsted 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valassis Direct Mail, Inc 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE FRH Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Bean & Produce 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zaldivars 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockhart Suver 49 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 SF - Santa Fe 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hansen's IGA West Salem 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waynesboro 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Vallarta Supermarkets #2 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NorthState - 31 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria VA 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&F Precision Molding INC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gundlach Champion, Inc. 49 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, 2021, 2020. 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.