Food Services · South Carolina

000016617 University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC · ~959 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

000016617 University of South Carolina runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade C.

000016617 University of South Carolina: 3.5 TCR = 117% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

000016617 University of South Carolina safety composite

000016617 University of South Carolina scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

000016617 University of South Carolina: 3.5 → 74.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 74.5 TCR · DART/TCR 5.91× in 2024

000016617 University of South Carolina's TCR rose 71.0 from 3.5 in 2023 to 74.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 5.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 117% of ind

  • DART 20.7 DART
  • RANK #67/132
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT EAGLE POIN…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~959 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT EAGLE POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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000016617 University of South Carolina in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 000016617 University of South Carolina averages 3.5 TCR (117% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

000016617 University of South Carolina TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=74.5 · BLS 3.0

Where 000016617 University of South Carolina falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 132 Food Services employers in South Carolina.

000016617 University of South Carolina (959 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 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 000016617 University of South Carolina
000016617 University of South Carolina (959 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

000016617 University of South Carolina has more employees than the Food Services 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
2024 74.5 20.7 18 0 0
2023 3.5 2.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · SC · Columbia

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, SC · 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 SODEXO AT EAGLE POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Center 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USAA SAN ANTONIO CAFE H 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nucor Steel Berkeley 959 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Omnium Auto Exteriors, LLC 959 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bosch Rexroth FniP 957 FTE
STATE-SIZE US1 955 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockford School District Wide 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Aguila Food Distribution LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Riddle Surgical Center, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Kingsport 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Balon Corporation 959 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA484 Savannah River Tissue 959 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Service Company LLC. 959 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Portsmouth_RI 959 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. 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.