Colleges, community · Tennessee

Columbia State Community College

Columbia, TN · ~506 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia State Community College runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade D.

Columbia State Community College: 1.8 TCR = 131% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia State Community College safety composite

Columbia State Community College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.7

2016→2017

Columbia State Community College injury rate improved

Columbia State Community College's TCR fell 3.7 from 3.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.7 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Columbia, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO Gaston College
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~506 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gaston College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia State Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia State Community College averages 1.8 TCR (131% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia State Community College TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Columbia State Community College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Columbia State Community College (506 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia State Community College
Columbia State Community College (506 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Columbia State Community College has more employees than the Colleges, community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.7 1.2 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · TN · Columbia

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 79 employers in Columbia, TN · 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 Gaston College 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn Campus 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swaggerty's Sausage 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE TN 5720 Asheville Hwy 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Land Company, LLC 507 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenland FG 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury Regional Medical Center 2,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maury County Government 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 192 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Family Health Group, Inc. 370 FTE
NAT-TCR SAT_Cleveland 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heyburn Building 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HBSHSETX08 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Orange Avenue (Flora) 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ACA Industries Inc 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Operations 506 FTE
NAT-SIZE Byhalia - 442 E. Stonewall Rd 506 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.