Employer · Mississippi

606 - Columbus

Columbus, MS · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

606 - Columbus runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

606 - Columbus: 3.6 TCR = 140% of industry BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

606 - Columbus safety composite

606 - Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

606 - Columbus: 2.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2023

606 - Columbus's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.4 in 2020 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Columbus, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #13/32
  • PHOTO S04193 - WM of Utah …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan (0.0 TCR gap)

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606 - Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 606 - Columbus averages 3.6 TCR (140% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

606 - Columbus TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 2.6

Where 606 - Columbus falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 32 industry employers in Mississippi.

606 - Columbus (43 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 606 - Columbus
606 - Columbus (43 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

606 - Columbus has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · MS · Columbus

2,322 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 104 employers in Columbus, MS · 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 S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04289 - Harrison Hauling 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Waste Virginia, LLC - Blue Ridge 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of New Jersey LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Farms Sebastopol Hatchery 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coahoma Electric Power Association-Tunica 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&M Pipeline Acquisition, LLC dba M&M Pipeline 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods- West Point MS 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Columbus 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 753 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paccar Engine Company 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bracken Construction Company, Inc. 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Murray Elementary School 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1475 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR L&M Warehouse & Packing of North Florida LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hussmann Services Corporation- Powder Springs 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hazel Dell Store 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clackamas Store 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neumiller Electric, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenwood Place 43 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, 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.