Grain fumigation · Oregon

Degesch America Columbia River

Portland, OR · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Degesch America Columbia River runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grain fumigation workplace, earning a grade D.

Degesch America Columbia River: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Grain fumigation BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Degesch America Columbia River safety composite

Degesch America Columbia River scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Degesch America Columbia River: 5.4 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2021

Degesch America Columbia River's TCR rose 8.3 from 5.4 in 2018 to 13.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Great Lakes Packing Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Lakes Packing Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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Degesch America Columbia River in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Degesch America Columbia River averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Grain fumigation BLS benchmark).

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

Degesch America Columbia River TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=13.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Degesch America Columbia River falls in its industry

666 Grain fumigation establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Grain fumigation employers in Oregon.

Degesch America Columbia River (22 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Degesch America Columbia River
Degesch America Columbia River (22 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Degesch America Columbia River has fewer employees than the Grain fumigation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 13.7 13.7 3 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · OR · Portland

666 Grain fumigation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Great Lakes Packing Co 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor & Fulton Packing LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Produce Distributors Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Precooling 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hammelmans Floral, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Means Nursery Inc (River Road) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE HASTINGS BULB GROWERS, INC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery, LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 4 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alden Terrace of McHenry 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 128 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Combined Dispatch 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Dixie 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middletown 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stone Creek Land Design & Development, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 22 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, 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.