Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Vita Plus (Columbus)

Columbus, WI · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vita Plus (Columbus) runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vita Plus (Columbus): 8.6 TCR = 221% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vita Plus (Columbus) safety composite

Vita Plus (Columbus) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Vita Plus (Columbus): 12.4 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2019

Vita Plus (Columbus)'s TCR rose 1.1 from 12.4 in 2016 to 13.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Columbus, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 221% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #51/53
  • PHOTO D&D Commodities Ltd.…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D&D Commodities Ltd. - Greeley (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vita Plus (Columbus) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vita Plus (Columbus) averages 8.6 TCR (221% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vita Plus (Columbus) TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=13.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Vita Plus (Columbus) falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 53 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Wisconsin.

Vita Plus (Columbus) (22 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vita Plus (Columbus)
Vita Plus (Columbus) (22 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Vita Plus (Columbus) has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a higher 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 13.5 13.5 3 0 0
2018 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 12.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · WI · Columbus

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 29 employers in Columbus, WI · 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 D&D Commodities Ltd. - Greeley 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rio Creek Feed Mill 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alltech Inc. - Springfield 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NRP-IN 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE URUS Production Shawano Stony Hill 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weston 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Electric Cooperative 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menomonie Service Center 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Ridge Health - Columbus 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Ridge Health, Inc. 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation - RP&L Columbus 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation - Columbus 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Rubber City Machinery Corp. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MI 1300 Crescent Lake Road 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0713 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR life care center of Yuma 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Priority Freight Handling, Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havre Service Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsville Store 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bulk Express 25001 Hammond 22 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.