Employer · Maryland

509 - Columbia Branch

Columbia, MD · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

509 - Columbia Branch runs at 465% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

509 - Columbia Branch: 10.2 TCR = 465% of industry BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

509 - Columbia Branch safety composite

509 - Columbia Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−5.1

2017→2023

509 - Columbia Branch injury rate improved

509 - Columbia Branch's TCR fell 5.1 from 9.2 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2022=17.9 · 2023=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423330 · Columbia, MD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 465% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #23/31
  • PHOTO Alside Supply Center…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alside Supply Center #157 (0.0 TCR gap)

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509 - Columbia Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 509 - Columbia Branch averages 10.2 TCR (465% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

509 - Columbia Branch TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2020=9.8 · 2022=17.9 · 2023=4 · BLS 2.2

Where 509 - Columbia Branch falls in its industry

953 industry establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 31 industry employers in Maryland.

509 - Columbia Branch (24 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 31 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 509 - Columbia Branch
509 - Columbia Branch (24 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 31 employees and a TCR of 5.7

509 - Columbia Branch has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2022 17.9 17.9 5 0 0
2020 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2017 9.2 9.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423330 · MD · Columbia

953 industry 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 Alside Supply Center #157 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 624 ABC Supply Co., inc (Norandex) 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABC Supply Co Inc, 092 Wausau, WI 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2150-Service Partners 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - MDR 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keys Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blakely Building 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 309-NiSource-Hagerstown MD 24 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 C.A. Schroeder, Inc. / CASCO 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Evansville Goodwill Industries Main Office Plant and Store 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 1512 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Municipio de Las Marias (Obras Publicas) 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 603 - Gulf Freeway Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 402 - Charlotte Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 345 - Levittown Branch 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 31 - Portland Branch 24 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, 2022, 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.