Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled · Oregon

Columbia Helicopters

Aurora, OR · ~575 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Helicopters runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled workplace, earning a grade B.

Columbia Helicopters: 2.6 TCR = 59% of Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Helicopters safety composite

Columbia Helicopters scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2024

Columbia Helicopters injury rate improved

Columbia Helicopters's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.5 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481211 · Aurora, OR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P33
  • PHOTO Sun Air Jets, LLC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~575 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Air Jets, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Columbia Helicopters in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Helicopters averages 2.6 TCR (59% of the Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Helicopters TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Columbia Helicopters falls in its industry

40 Air passenger carriers, nonsch establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Columbia Helicopters (575 employees, TCR 2.6) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 1.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 21 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 05001,0001,500 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Helicopters
Columbia Helicopters (575 employees, TCR 2.6) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Columbia Helicopters has more employees than the Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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 2.1 1.5 5 2 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.0 0.7 4 0 0
2021 1.9 1.3 10 0 0
2020 3.9 1.3 13 9 0
2019 4.3 2.8 28 1 0
2018 4.5 1.8 18 5 0
2017 2.7 1.4 11 1 0
2016 3.5 2.7 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481211 · OR · Aurora

40 Air passenger carriers, nonscheduled employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 20 employers in Aurora, OR · 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 Sun Air Jets, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meridian Air Charter 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phoenix Air Group, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Air Charter Inc./dba Jet Edge International 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoffman Structures, Inc. 574 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Portland Interior (553) 578 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albertsons Portland Distribution Center 571 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCC Structurals - SSBO 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van's Aircraft Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canby Excavating, Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texstar - Aurora 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winco Powerline Services 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Huellinghoff Bros., Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Zignego Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cromwell Plant 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Jo Casino 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chalmette Refining, L.L.C. 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl Buddig & Company-Montgomery 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE CareSense HC 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maquoketa Store 575 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.