Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill waste, kapok) manufacturing · Georgia

Columbia Recycling Corp

Dalton, GA · ~335 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Recycling Corp runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill waste, kapok) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Columbia Recycling Corp: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill waste, kapok) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Recycling Corp safety composite

Columbia Recycling Corp scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Columbia Recycling Corp injury rate improved

Columbia Recycling Corp's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Dalton, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Industrial Fabrics, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~335 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Fabrics, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Recycling Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Recycling Corp averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill waste, kapok) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Recycling Corp TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbia Recycling Corp falls in its industry

89 Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton employers in Georgia.

Columbia Recycling Corp (335 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Recycling Corp
Columbia Recycling Corp (335 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Columbia Recycling Corp has more employees than the Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill wast median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 2.5 0.8 6 3 0
2023 4.4 1.7 18 0 0
2016 3.3 1.4 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · GA · Dalton

89 Apparel fillings (e.g., cotton mill waste, kapok) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 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 Industrial Fabrics, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANNIN FLAGMAKERS-SOUTH BOSTON 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inventory Trading Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3461 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8807827-Spoke Custom Products 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shumate Mechanical LLC 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache Mills A1 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Beaverton Motorcycles 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Saginaw Metal Casting Operations 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Veliz Company, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR White-Brook Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Estee Lauder - PALC 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ebi LLC 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE XKC 335 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX124 335 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, 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.