Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers · Georgia

SunSouth Columbus

Columbus, GA · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunSouth Columbus runs at 485% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

SunSouth Columbus: 10.7 TCR = 485% of Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunSouth Columbus safety composite

SunSouth Columbus scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

SunSouth Columbus: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

SunSouth Columbus's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Columbus, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 485% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/29
  • PHOTO Watseka
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Watseka (0.0 TCR gap)

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SunSouth Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunSouth Columbus averages 10.7 TCR (485% of the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SunSouth Columbus TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=32 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where SunSouth Columbus falls in its industry

700 Tractors, farm and garden, mer establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 29 Tractors, farm and garden, mer employers in Georgia.

SunSouth Columbus (19 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SunSouth Columbus
SunSouth Columbus (19 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

SunSouth Columbus has fewer employees than the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2023 10.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 32.0 0.0 6 0 0
2021 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · GA · Columbus

700 Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Watseka 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winamac 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe Tractor-Albany 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Costex Tractor Parts 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Ag LLC, dba Green Meadows Dairy 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Pride Live Opes 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oakland Wood Products, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coley Gin & Fertilizer Company 19 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 Amphenol Nexus Technologies 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian Prairie School District 204 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Grove Manor 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamast Avenue 10.7 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.