Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing · Nebraska

Behlen Mfg. Co.

Columbus, NE · ~683 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Behlen Mfg. Co. runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Behlen Mfg. Co.: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Behlen Mfg. Co. safety composite

Behlen Mfg. Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Behlen Mfg. Co.: 4.3 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Behlen Mfg. Co.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 4.3 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Columbus, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO RedGuard Diversified…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~683 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RedGuard Diversified Structures (0.0 TCR gap)

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Behlen Mfg. Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Behlen Mfg. Co. averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Behlen Mfg. Co. TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=3.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Behlen Mfg. Co. falls in its industry

393 Prefabricated buildings, metal establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Prefabricated buildings, metal employers in Nebraska.

Behlen Mfg. Co. (683 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Behlen Mfg. Co.
Behlen Mfg. Co. (683 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Behlen Mfg. Co. has more employees than the Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 6.7 3.6 40 3 0
2022 4.8 2.2 31 2 0
2017 3.1 2.8 19 0 0
2016 4.3 1.8 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · NE · Columbus

393 Prefabricated buildings, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 91 employers in Columbus, NE · 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 RedGuard Diversified Structures 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Operations 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wadsworth Control Systems Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MBCI Indianapolis 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zoetis Inc 685 FTE
STATE-SIZE CNH_Grand_Island 681 FTE
STATE-SIZE CNH Industrial - Grand Island 688 FTE
STATE-SIZE 61830190 METHODIST FREMONT HEALTH 674 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus West 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Pharmaceutical Systems 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Community Hospital 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus East 762 FTE
NAT-TCR Tennessee Tractor LLC - Dyersburg 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Meat 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Electric Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avon Cabinet Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Solo Cup Company Dallas 683 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maryhaven Center of Hope 683 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #32 683 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne Hauling Company 683 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.