Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from cacao · Indiana

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location

Columbus, IN · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from cacao workplace, earning a grade B.

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location: 2.3 TCR = 55% of Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from cacao BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location safety composite

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.0

2017→2019

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location injury rate improved

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.9 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.9 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Columbus, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P62
  • PHOTO HERSHEY CHOCOLATE OF…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HERSHEY CHOCOLATE OF VIRGINIA, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location averages 2.3 TCR (55% of the Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from cacao BLS benchmark).

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

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 4.2

Where Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location falls in its industry

65 Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, m establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location (50 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location
Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location (50 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tipton Mills, Columbus Indian Location has fewer employees than the Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · IN · Columbus

65 Drink powdered mixes, cocoa, made from cacao employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 141 employers in Columbus, IN · 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 HERSHEY CHOCOLATE OF VIRGINIA, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dobla Group USA 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tru Food MFG 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hershey's Chocolate - Robinson 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Sergio Corporation 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smock Fansler Corporation 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE MacDougall Pierce Construction 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCrite Milling 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Material Handling, Inc. 1,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR NTN Driveshaft Inc. 1,756 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Engine Plant 1,335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Commons Office Building 1,248 FTE
NAT-TCR 2073-EJ-20730175-MX 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Schenker/Chandler 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR FL- Patrick AFB ERCDM 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Friends Homes at Guilford 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aperion Care Springfield 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mannington Wood 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Manor Health and Rehabiliation Center 50 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: 2019, 2017. 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.