Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · Texas

Columbia Packing Co, Inc

Dallas, TX · ~39 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Columbia Packing Co, Inc runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
10
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Columbia Packing Co, Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Columbia Packing Co, Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 424470.

Where Columbia Packing Co, Inc falls in its industry

167 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Fresh meats merchant wholesale employers in Texas.

Columbia Packing Co, Inc has an average TCR of 4.3, which is 193% of the industry average (2.2) for Fresh meats merchant wholesalers. This is worse than average.

The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.

Trend analysis for Columbia Packing Co, Inc

Between 2016 and 2024, Columbia Packing Co, Inc's Total Case Rate improved from 3.1 to 2.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 10% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 2.5, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 7.9, a spread of 5.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Columbia Packing Co, Inc recorded 10 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Columbia Packing Co, Inc's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424470 - Fresh meats merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 71,881 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Columbia Packing Co, Inc (this establishment) 4.25 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 424470
Texas state avg (all industries) 3.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Columbia Packing Co, Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 7.9 7.9 3 0 0
2021 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 0 1 0
2016 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Columbia Packing Co, Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fresh meats merchant wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 193% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers benchmark, Columbia Packing Co, Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fresh meats merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Columbia Packing Co, Inc's safety grade?
Columbia Packing Co, Inc has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Fresh meats merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Columbia Packing Co, Inc reported?
Columbia Packing Co, Inc has reported 10 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 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.

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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.