Discount Department Stores · South Carolina

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry

Columbia, SC · ~249 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry runs at 320% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry: 10.9 TCR = 320% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry safety composite

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry held a steady TCR band

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.6 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 23.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.6 · 2021=23.5 · 2022=20.0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 320% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #55/55
  • PHOTO 0606 - Silverdale
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0606 - Silverdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry averages 10.9 TCR (320% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2021=23.5 · 2022=20 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 55 Discount Department Stores employers in South Carolina.

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry (249 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry
1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry (249 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1923 - Columbia Garners Ferry has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.6 2.9 5 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 4 1 0
2022 20.0 20.0 1 27 0
2021 23.5 19.0 11 20 0
2019 3.6 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · SC · Columbia

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 0606 - Silverdale 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0852 - Rohnert Park 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1903 - Warrenville 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0251 - Mesa Central 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duncan 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4818-48180038-7600 RICHARD ST-WC 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6395 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCSMV - SUMMERVILLE CENTER 249 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 1903 - Warrenville 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0852 - Rohnert Park 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0606 - Silverdale 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Gage Corporation 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1921 - Jacksonville East 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1912 - Mundelein 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1834 - Upland 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2483 - Newport 249 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, 2022, 2021, 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.