Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

NICKLES-COLUMBUS

Columbus, OH · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NICKLES-COLUMBUS runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

NICKLES-COLUMBUS: 3.8 TCR = 175% of Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NICKLES-COLUMBUS safety composite

NICKLES-COLUMBUS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−6.4

2016→2018

NICKLES-COLUMBUS injury rate improved

NICKLES-COLUMBUS's TCR fell 6.4 from 6.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/68
  • PHOTO IA - Dubuque - 5301 …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IA - Dubuque - 5301 Chavenelle Rd - The American Bottling Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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NICKLES-COLUMBUS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NICKLES-COLUMBUS averages 3.8 TCR (175% of the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

NICKLES-COLUMBUS TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where NICKLES-COLUMBUS falls in its industry

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 68 Bakery products (except frozen employers in Ohio.

NICKLES-COLUMBUS (27 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NICKLES-COLUMBUS
NICKLES-COLUMBUS (27 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

NICKLES-COLUMBUS has fewer employees than the Bakery products (except frozen) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2016 6.4 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · OH · Columbus

1,278 Bakery products (except frozen) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 IA - Dubuque - 5301 Chavenelle Rd - The American Bottling Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fauna Foods Corp. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Love Bottling Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Island - 90-01 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jeff Creque Farms Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Pond Gardens Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wen Mar Farms, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Farms Croton Pullet 2 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Schlitterbahn Beach Resort Management, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI-Artic East 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Power Magnetics 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eddy Village Green 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Mutual Door Kansas City, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paramount (GCR) 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duvall Miles 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laurel T & M 27 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.