Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Essendant: Columbus OE

Name: Essendant: Columbus OE Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Columbus, OH · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Essendant: Columbus OE runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Essendant: Columbus OE: 2.2 TCR = 101% of Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essendant: Columbus OE safety composite

Essendant: Columbus OE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Essendant: Columbus OE: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Essendant: Columbus OE's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424120 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 101% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Punch Studio, LLC
BOOK 5y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Punch Studio, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essendant: Orl

2.3
This site

2.2
Punch Studio,

2.2
Four Seasons G

2.2
300539-GRAND R

2.1

What this shows Essendant: Columbus OE averages 2.2 TCR (101% of the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Essendant: Columbus OE TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Essendant: Columbus OE falls in its industry

87 Stationery supplies merchant w establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Stationery supplies merchant w employers in Ohio.

Essendant: Columbus OE (71 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Essendant: Columbus OE has fewer employees than the Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023	1.5	0.0	1
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	1.5	0.0	1
2020	8.1	6.5	5
2019	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424120 · OH · Columbus

87 Stationery supplies merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Punch Studio, LLC	CULVER CITY, CA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Four Seasons Gen Mdse	LOS ANGELES, CA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Essendant: Orlando OE	ORLANDO, FL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	300539-GRAND RAPIDS	KENTWOOD, MI	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Grand Rapids Production GRA1	GRAND RAPIDS	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rudolph Libbe Inc. - Ford Ohio Assembly Plant, Avon Lake	AVON LAKE	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	John G. Johnson Construction Office	CLEVELAND	71 FTE
STATE-SIZE	R&R Pipeline Inc.	NEWARK	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus	Columbus	10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Riverside Methodist Hospital	Columbus	9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1	Columbus	5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR	Surface Engineering Specialties Inc	Sunnyvale, CA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	D & M Contracting Inc	New Alexandria, PA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	NIBCO Greensboro	Greensboro, GA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Western Nevada College	Carson City, NV	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	San Bernardino Warehouse	San Bernardino, CA	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Liberty Commons Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Of Bladen County	Elizabethtown, NC	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jorgensen Conveyors, Inc.	Mequon, WI	71 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LASI-Bern	Bern, KS	71 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.