Deinking plants · Mississippi

Columbus Mill

Columbus, MS · ~336 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbus Mill runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Deinking plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Columbus Mill: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Deinking plants BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbus Mill safety composite

Columbus Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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 Mill held a steady TCR band

Columbus Mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322110 · Columbus, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P70
  • PHOTO ND Fairmont LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~336 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ND Fairmont LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbus Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbus Mill averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Deinking plants BLS benchmark).

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

Columbus Mill TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Columbus Mill falls in its industry

46 Deinking plants establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Columbus Mill (336 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbus Mill
Columbus Mill (336 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Columbus Mill has more employees than the Deinking plants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.0 1.0 4 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2022 2.2 1.9 6 2 0
2021 3.4 3.2 7 6 0
2019 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2018 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2017 0.9 0.3 1 2 0
2016 1.1 1.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322110 · MS · Columbus

46 Deinking plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 104 employers in Columbus, MS · 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 ND Fairmont LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penick Forest Products, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattanooga Southern Cellulose 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DC2 DC2 OLIVE BRANCH MS 336 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chevron Pascagoula Refinery Pascagoula MS- BSL 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Jackson 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Columbus 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 753 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paccar Engine Company 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bracken Construction Company, Inc. 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Oakwood Health Services 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Woonsocket 10295 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI Metals NJ 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Concrete Placement Tesla 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Industrial Resources Corp 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kahala Nui 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alatrade Foods Inc - Boaz 336 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ndfar - Fargo 336 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.