Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Ohio

Columbus College of Art & Design

Columbus, OH · ~382 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus College of Art & Design runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade A.

Columbus College of Art & Design: 0.6 TCR = 43% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus College of Art & Design safety composite

Columbus College of Art & Design scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Columbus College of Art & Design held a steady TCR band

Columbus College of Art & Design's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.6 in 2022 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO South Puget Sound Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~382 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Puget Sound Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus College of Art & Design in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus College of Art & Design averages 0.6 TCR (43% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

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

Columbus College of Art & Design TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Columbus College of Art & Design falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Ohio.

Columbus College of Art & Design (382 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus College of Art & Design
Columbus College of Art & Design (382 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Columbus College of Art & Design has fewer employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · OH · Columbus

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools 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 South Puget Sound Community College 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey City University 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universidad Ana G Mendez Online 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Connecticut - Waterbury Branch 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Teva Womens Health 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE AK Steel - Mansfield Works 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Tape, LLC 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2266 382 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 Daybreak Industrial Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton Instruments - Trenton 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Lane Recycling Center 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCSF, ADM, Office of the City Administrator 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gem Group Inc. 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - UNJ2 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Beef Co. 382 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.