Iron foundries · Georgia

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus)

Columbus, GA · ~100 workers · 2 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

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade C.

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus): 3.9 TCR = 118% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) safety composite

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus): 2.6 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus)'s TCR rose 2.6 from 2.6 in 2023 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Columbus, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Brembo Homer Foundry
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brembo Homer Foundry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Iron foundries employers in Georgia.

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) (100 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus)
Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) (100 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company (Columbus) has fewer employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2024 5.2 2.6 6 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · GA · Columbus

272 Iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 291 employers in Columbus, GA · 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 Brembo Homer Foundry 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennedy Valve Company 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR INTAT Precision, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AB&I Foundry 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation - Moultrie 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Providence Group of GA 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlanta Kitchen - Decatur 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Utilities of GA Ince 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST FRANCIS HEALTH LLC 2,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piedmont Columbus Midtown Hospital 1,890 FTE
CITY-NEAR P&W Columbus, Georgia Site (Main Campus) 1,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paul S Amos Campus 1,748 FTE
NAT-TCR Crave Brothers Farm 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Glassmere Fuel Service 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohcgf - Cleveland Gateway 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR K/C Welding Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koch Methanol St. James 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yorktown Heights 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runtal North America 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young Construction Company, Inc. 100 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.