General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Ohio

Columbus Dry

Columbus, OH · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus Dry runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Columbus Dry: 4.5 TCR = 100% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus Dry safety composite

Columbus Dry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Columbus Dry: 3.4 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2024

Columbus Dry's TCR rose 6.0 from 3.4 in 2021 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 100% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #129/186
  • PHOTO McKee Foods Transpor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McKee Foods Transportation - AR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus Dry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus Dry averages 4.5 TCR (100% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Columbus Dry TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=2 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Columbus Dry falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #129 safest of 186 General freight trucking, long employers in Ohio.

Columbus Dry (84 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus Dry
Columbus Dry (84 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Columbus Dry has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 9.4 7.7 11 0 0
2023 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2021 3.4 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · OH · Columbus

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 McKee Foods Transportation - AR 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Justman Freight Lines 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bison Transport USA - Auburn 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston SC Trasnportation 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phillips Companies 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Mound Street Service Center 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Husky Energy, Lima 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bruns Building and Development and Ohio and Indiana Roofing 84 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 Kenwood 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyndemere Homeowners Association 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Frankenmuth Brewing Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hy-Pro Filtration 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis Dry 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nostrum Laboratories Inc. - KC 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moline IL (Quad Cities - 2) 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granite Shore Power 84 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.