Wood Preservation · Texas

Great Southern Wood - Columbus

Columbus, TX · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Southern Wood - Columbus runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wood Preservation workplace, earning a grade B.

Great Southern Wood - Columbus: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Wood Preservation BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Southern Wood - Columbus safety composite

Great Southern Wood - Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Great Southern Wood - Columbus: 1.6 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2024

Great Southern Wood - Columbus's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.6 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Columbus, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO CM Tucker Lumber of …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CM Tucker Lumber of Pageland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Southern Wood - Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Southern Wood - Columbus averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Wood Preservation BLS benchmark).

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

Great Southern Wood - Columbus TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Southern Wood - Columbus falls in its industry

183 Wood Preservation establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Wood Preservation employers in Texas.

Great Southern Wood - Columbus (81 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Southern Wood - Columbus
Great Southern Wood - Columbus (81 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Great Southern Wood - Columbus has more employees than the Wood Preservation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.4 3.4 3 0 0
2023 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2022 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · TX · Columbus

183 Wood Preservation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 15 employers in Columbus, TX · 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 CM Tucker Lumber of Pageland 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSWP-Corp Maintenance 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montevallo 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kraken Oil & Gas 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Frac Solutions 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARLINGTON SERVICE CENTER 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Karnes Electric Cooperative, Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Community Hospital 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Drymalla Construction Company, LLC 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 503 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR 503 108 FTE
NAT-TCR CECO Concrete Construction : Hartford 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR L.C Anderson, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The City of Bloomington - Community Development 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Surly Brewing Company - MSP 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arbors at Oregon 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Gables Operator LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE CKS Colgate 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transitional Services Inc All Locations 81 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.