Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing · Mississippi

General Shale Columbus Brick

Columbus, MS · ~78 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Shale Columbus Brick runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

General Shale Columbus Brick: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Shale Columbus Brick safety composite

General Shale Columbus Brick scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

General Shale Columbus Brick: 2.4 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2018

General Shale Columbus Brick's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.4 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Columbus, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Ouachita Brick Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ouachita Brick Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Shale Columbus Brick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Shale Columbus Brick averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Shale Columbus Brick TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where General Shale Columbus Brick falls in its industry

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Bricks (i.e., common, face, gl employers in Mississippi.

General Shale Columbus Brick (78 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate General Shale Columbus Brick
General Shale Columbus Brick (78 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

General Shale Columbus Brick has more employees than the Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, holl median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2018 5.9 5.9 5 0 0
2017 3.4 1.1 2 1 0
2016 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · MS · Columbus

307 Bricks (i.e., common, face, glazed, hollow, vitrified), clay, manufacturing 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 Ouachita Brick Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endicott Clay Products Co. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant Bluff Plant 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vesuvius USA Tyler 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms McComb Hatchery 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE JT Shannon Lumber Company, INC. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotch Plywood Company Waynesboro Division 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.F.M., Inc. 78 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 Heritage Health - Mt. Zion 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryerson - Houston South 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Carteret (Njcrt) 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Location #5 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iron Hill Brewery- Voorhees 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE RDU - Airport United Airlines Offices 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE IE / OC Branch 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 03 Chemical & Rebond 78 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.