Department Stores · Maryland

100 - Columbia

Columbia, MD · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

100 - Columbia runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

100 - Columbia: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

100 - Columbia safety composite

100 - Columbia 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2016→2018

100 - Columbia injury rate improved

100 - Columbia's TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Columbia, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/47
  • PHOTO Younkers-Muskegon-Th…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Younkers-Muskegon-The Bon-ton Stores,Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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100 - Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 100 - Columbia averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

100 - Columbia TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 100 - Columbia falls in its industry

1,987 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 47 Department Stores employers in Maryland.

100 - Columbia (110 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 100 - Columbia
100 - Columbia (110 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

100 - Columbia has more employees than the Department Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · MD · Columbia

1,987 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 Younkers-Muskegon-The Bon-ton Stores,Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2428 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Valley 554 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0349 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE EMS Technologies, LLC 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrico, Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heller Electric Co., Inc 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles A. Klein and Sons, Inc 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR APS Four Corners - Sundt Construction 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Philips Lighting Company 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Solutions : IS - Tech - Plano, TX - Technology Drive 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Border Brokerage Blaine Administration (Wabln) 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avante at Reidsville 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gruber Technical, Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington (Wabur) 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havelock (Nchav) 110 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: 2018, 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.