Potato farming, field and seed potato production · Nebraska

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE

Name: CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Columbus, NE · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE: 6.2 TCR = 138% of Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE safety composite

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE held a steady TCR band

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.1 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 138% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/10
PHOTO CSS Farms - Ione
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CSS Farms - Ione (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sixmile Land a

6.3
This site

6.2
CSS Farms - Io

6.2
San Felipe Far

6.1
CSS Farms, LLC

6.1

What this shows CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE averages 6.2 TCR (138% of the Potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE falls in its industry

153 Potato farming, field and seed establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Potato farming, field and seed employers in Nebraska.

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE (40 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE 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
2024	6.3	0.0	2	0	0
2023	6.1	3.0	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	CSS Farms - Ione	BOARDMAN, OR	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	San Felipe Farms	HOLLISTER, CA	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CSS Farms, LLC Holbrook, ID	HOLBROOK, ID	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sixmile Land and Cattle LLC	BOARDMAN, OR	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Frenchman Valley Produce, Inc.	IMPERIAL	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Olson Farms	NORTH PLATTE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cheever Construction	LINCOLN	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BIC Construction	LINCOLN	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BD Columbus West	Columbus	1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BD Pharmaceutical Systems	Columbus	971 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Columbus Community Hospital	Columbus	833 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BD Columbus East	Columbus	762 FTE
NAT-TCR	Henry Ford Lakeside	Sterling Heights, MI	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Triadelphia Wv - 3368	Triadelphia, WV	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Monona Wi - 3034	Monona, WI	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ashworth Bros., Inc.	Winchester, VA	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Samuel August Logistics LLC	Conshohocken, PA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	D&M Consultants	Bloomfield Hills, MI	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DFS Oskaloosa, LLC	Oskaloosa, IA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Key, LLC - Main	Madison, MS	40 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. 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.