Industry profile · NAICS 541860
Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution
Workplace injury rates across 67 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 67
- Employers
- 3.6
- Avg TCR
- 0.5
- BLS benchmark
- 1,013
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution average 3.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 7.3 times the BLS national benchmark of 0.5.
- 3.6
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 0.5
- BLS national benchmark
- 67
- employers reporting
- 1,013
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution Safety Data Reveals
The Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution sector (NAICS 541860) encompasses 67 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,013 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 0.5 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.6 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Advertising material preparation services for mailing or other direct distribution that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 1 of 2| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes-Barre, PA | Wilkes-Barre, PA | F | 10.8 |
| Impact Winsted | Winsted, MN | F | 8.7 |
| Pittsburgh Mailing | Mckees Rocks, PA | F | 8.4 |
| Valassis | Auburn, WA | F | 8.4 |
| David J. Thompson Mailing Corp. | Bloomsburg, PA | F | 8.2 |
| Valassis Direct Mail, Inc | Newark, CA | F | 6.5 |
| Vision Integrated Graphics Group LLC | Hobart, IN | F | 6.3 |
| Valassis - Commerce | Commerce, CA | F | 6.1 |
| Valassis Direct Mail, Inc. | Miami Lakes, FL | F | 5.6 |
| UMS Madison | Madison, WI | F | 5.2 |
| United Mail Presort | Cincinnati, OH | F | 5.1 |
| Valassis Seattle | Auburn, WA | F | 5.0 |
| UMS Brookfield | Brookfield, WI | F | 5.0 |
| Impressions Direct | Fenton, MO | F | 4.8 |
| American Spirit Mail Solutions | Howard Lake, MN | F | 4.8 |
| Valassis | Commerce, CA | F | 4.6 |
| Valassis | Newark, CA | F | 4.6 |
| UMS Wausau | Wausau, WI | F | 4.5 |
| Charlestown | Charlestown, IN | F | 4.4 |
| ResourceOne | Tulsa, OK | F | 4.3 |
| Richmond Print Group | Richmond, VA | F | 4.3 |
| Impact MPLS | Minneapolis, MN | F | 4.2 |
| 121 Marketing Services Group | Rogers, MN | F | 4.2 |
| UMS Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | F | 4.2 |
| Valassis, Inc. | Dallas, TX | F | 4.2 |
| Johnson & Quin, Inc. | Niles, IL | F | 4.2 |
| RPG Enterprises LLC dba Planet Direct Mail | Manassas, VA | F | 3.8 |
| The Moore Companies | Henrico, Va, VA | F | 3.8 |
| E1 Digital Direct | Boardman, OH | F | 3.8 |
| Sourcelink | Greenville, SC | F | 3.7 |
| Streamworks | Blaine, MN | F | 3.7 |
| Direct Marketing and Fulfillment | Sacramento, CA | F | 3.6 |
| Mail Source | Fall Creek, WI | F | 3.5 |
| Johnson & Quin541860 | Niles, IL | F | 3.4 |
| United Mail | Cincinnati, OH | F | 3.4 |
| American Marketing | Mundelein, IL | F | 3.3 |
| Demar Direct | Lombard, IL | F | 3.1 |
| Andrew Associates | Enfield, CT | F | 3.1 |
| IWCO Direct Hamburg | Hamburg, PA | F | 3.0 |
| Southwest Publishing and Mailing Co. | Topeka, KS | F | 3.0 |
| Mailing Services of Pittsburgh | Freedom, PA | F | 2.9 |
| Jetson Specialty Marketing Services Inc | Kutztown, PA | F | 2.4 |
| Harland Clarke Holdings - Florence | Florence, KY | F | 2.4 |
| Impact Mailing of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | F | 2.3 |
| North American Communications, Inc. - Duncansville | Duncansville, PA | F | 2.3 |
| Valassis Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | F | 2.3 |
| Executive Mailing Services | Palos Hills, IL | F | 2.2 |
| Valassis, Inc. | Miami Lakes, FL | F | 2.1 |
| East Bridgewater, MA | East Bridgewater, MA | F | 2.1 |
| T. G. T. Enterprises, Inc. | Poway, CA | F | 2.0 |
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