Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Georgia

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA

Columbus, GA · ~340 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA safety composite

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2016→2018

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA injury rate improved

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA's TCR fell 1.4 from 6.1 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.1 · 2018=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Columbus, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #22/36
  • PHOTO ALSIP IL DEPOT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ALSIP IL DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands - Columbus GA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands - Columbus GA averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands - Columbus GA falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 36 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Georgia.

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA (340 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hostess Brands - Columbus GA
Hostess Brands - Columbus GA (340 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands - Columbus GA has more employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.7 4.3 21 0 0
2016 6.1 4.3 23 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · GA · Columbus

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries 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 ALSIP IL DEPOT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Consolidated Foods 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYRACUSE NY DEPOT 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davison Sales Branch 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Irving Tissue 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATLANTA 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE 864 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3 340 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 Drilltech Directional Services Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Duyn Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Schu East 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Plant 1 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jet.com FC-6923 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menlo Park (Camen) 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Provo Center (Utore) 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazonas Administration 340 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, 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.