Flour Milling · Ohio

Ardent Mills Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Columbus runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade F.

Ardent Mills Columbus: 6.7 TCR = 204% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Columbus safety composite

Ardent Mills Columbus scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Ardent Mills Columbus: 6.2 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ardent Mills Columbus's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.2 in 2020 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 204% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Mennel Milling & Bak…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mennel Milling & Bakery Mix of North Carolina, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Columbus averages 6.7 TCR (204% of the Flour Milling BLS benchmark).

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

Ardent Mills Columbus TCR series: 2020=6.2 · 2021=10.7 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Columbus falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Flour Milling employers in Ohio.

Ardent Mills Columbus (26 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardent Mills Columbus
Ardent Mills Columbus (26 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Columbus has fewer employees than the Flour Milling median and a higher 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
2024 6.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2021 10.7 3.6 3 0 0
2020 6.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · OH · Columbus

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Mennel Milling & Bakery Mix of North Carolina, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JRUSA-Portage 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snavely's Mill, Inc. - Lititz, PA 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shawnee Milling Company 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hog and Maitenance 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE YNOT Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE OA Facility Maintenance Shop 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMT INDUSTRIES 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Textile Products Incorporated 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at waterman lake 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 8 - Fargo 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ls Quien Sabe LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ardent Mills Harvey 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardent Mills Omaha A 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savannah Court of Milledgeville 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1521 S Frontage Rd Columbus Ms 26 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: 2024, 2023, 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.