Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Columbus Auto Shredding

Columbus, OH · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus Auto Shredding runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Columbus Auto Shredding: 4.0 TCR = 181% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus Auto Shredding safety composite

Columbus Auto Shredding scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−3.9

2021→2024

Columbus Auto Shredding injury rate improved

Columbus Auto Shredding's TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.9 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/79
  • PHOTO Gary Scrap Yard
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gary Scrap Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus Auto Shredding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus Auto Shredding averages 4.0 TCR (181% of the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Columbus Auto Shredding TCR series: 2021=3.9 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Columbus Auto Shredding falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 79 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in Ohio.

Columbus Auto Shredding (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus Auto Shredding
Columbus Auto Shredding (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Columbus Auto Shredding has fewer employees than the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2021 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · OH · Columbus

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers 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 Gary Scrap Yard 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP Oakland Transportation 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Virginia Cashin Recyclables, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GORDON WASTE COMPANY 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 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 International Pipe & Supply, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scotland Road Market, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE H&K Perforating LLC Chicago 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Hampton Surgery Center 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peerless Instrument Co., Inc 28 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. 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.