Newspaper branch offices · Iowa

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ

Dubuque, IA · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Newspaper branch offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ: 1.1 TCR = 153% of Newspaper branch offices BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ safety composite

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ: 0.7 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO LNP Media Group, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LNP Media Group, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ averages 1.1 TCR (153% of the Newspaper branch offices BLS benchmark).

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

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.4 · BLS 0.7

Where Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ falls in its industry

61 Newspaper branch offices establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Newspaper branch offices employers in Iowa.

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ (141 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ
Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ (141 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Woodward Communications Inc., Telegraph Herald, WoodwardBizMedia, Fence Talk Digital - DBQ has more employees than the Newspaper branch offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · IA · Dubuque

61 Newspaper branch offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 LNP Media Group, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Admin 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster Farming 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckley Newspapers Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 19-053071335-7 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graham Construction Company, Inc. 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sachs Electric Company @ SLN Facilities 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Pahrump, NV 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR G5 - Gateway 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Monitor Manufacturing - Augusta 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt-Tampa 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Topeka Baked Plant 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6514 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trig's Minocqua 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE BedMart 141 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.