Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Nebraska

CSS Farms - Columbus

Columbus, NE · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CSS Farms - Columbus runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade F.

CSS Farms - Columbus: 17.2 TCR = 382% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CSS Farms - Columbus safety composite

CSS Farms - Columbus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

CSS Farms - Columbus: 11.2 → 32.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 32.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

CSS Farms - Columbus's TCR rose 21.4 from 11.2 in 2018 to 32.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Columbus, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.2 · 382% of ind

  • DART 16.3 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Allied Potato Northw…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allied Potato Northwest (0.3 TCR gap)

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CSS Farms - Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CSS Farms - Columbus averages 17.2 TCR (382% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

CSS Farms - Columbus TCR series: 2018=11.2 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=12.1 · 2021=32.6 · BLS 4.5

Where CSS Farms - Columbus falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Nebraska.

CSS Farms - Columbus (25 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CSS Farms - Columbus
CSS Farms - Columbus (25 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

CSS Farms - Columbus has fewer employees than the Potato farming, field and seed potato pr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 32.6 16.3 8 0 0
2020 12.1 0.0 3 0 0
2019 12.8 4.3 3 0 0
2018 11.2 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · NE · Columbus

153 Potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 91 employers in Columbus, NE · 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 Allied Potato Northwest 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Farm Packing 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&W Walker Farms, Inc. 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balcom and Moe - farm 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE MPM Dairy East LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Site 2 NE 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldo Farms Nebraska 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sidney Division 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus West 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Pharmaceutical Systems 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Community Hospital 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus East 762 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkersburg Center 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 182435-Dsm-University Sta 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Banner Elk Campus 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Kauai Resort 17.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Electric Supply #102 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middleton WI Yard 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Care Connections Pittsburg 25 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.