Towing services, motor vehicle · Ohio

Broad and James

Columbus, OH · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Broad and James runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Towing services, motor vehicle workplace, earning a grade D.

Broad and James: 6.5 TCR = 144% of Towing services, motor vehicle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Broad and James safety composite

Broad and James scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
D 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Broad and James: 1.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Broad and James's TCR rose 6.0 from 1.6 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 144% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO United Towing & Tran…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Towing & Transport Louisiana, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Broad and James in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Broad and James averages 6.5 TCR (144% of the Towing services, motor vehicle BLS benchmark).

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

Broad and James TCR series: 2022=1.6 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Broad and James falls in its industry

157 Towing services, motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Towing services, motor vehicle employers in Ohio.

Broad and James (48 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Broad and James
Broad and James (48 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Broad and James has more employees than the Towing services, motor vehicle median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 7.5 5.7 4 0 0
2023 10.3 6.9 6 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · OH · Columbus

157 Towing services, motor vehicle 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 United Towing & Transport Louisiana, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Towing Professionals of Arizona, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CEDAR BLUFF TOWING, INC. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Voigt Inc Goleta 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heavy Equipment Leasing, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Dayton West 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Bronco Services, Inc 48 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 Metal-Matic, LLC Bedford Park Plant 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Parmer County Community Hospital dba Parmer Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RiverWoods Exeter 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Salute Logistics LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HEW4 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimberton Whole Foods Wyomissing 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE HAP Senior Care Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brighter Heights Arizona 48 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, 2022. 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.