Commercial bakeries · Georgia

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus

Columbus, GA · ~425 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus: 3.6 TCR = 108% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus safety composite

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus: 1.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.6 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 108% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #12/36
  • PHOTO Capistrano's Bakery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Capistrano's Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus averages 3.6 TCR (108% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus TCR series: 2022=1.6 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #12 safest of 36 Commercial bakeries employers in Georgia.

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus (425 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 LLC- Columbus
Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus (425 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hostess Brands LLC- Columbus has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a lower 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
2024 5.0 3.5 21 0 0
2023 4.2 2.8 22 0 0
2022 1.6 0.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · GA · Columbus

1,014 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 Capistrano's Bakery 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flowers Baking Co Of Henderson 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Italian Bakery 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA, Cerritos Store 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CFP GA DULUTH 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens - 195 Collins Industrial Boulevard 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyundai-Dymos 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland - AT 425 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 Burnside Builders LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR OEM Controls, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tanamera Construction, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Aviation Component Services 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HNE1 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wagman Heavy Civil, Inc. 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Fruit and Produce 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carroll Lutheran Village 425 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. 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.