Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing / Traffic Control Devices / Pavement Marking / Sign Install / Sales and Rental Equipment / Railroad and Utility · South Carolina

4401 - West Columbia, SC

West Columbia, SC · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4401 - West Columbia, SC runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing / Traffic Control Devices / Pavement Marking / Sign Install / Sales and Rental Equipment / Railroad and Utility workplace, earning a grade D.

4401 - West Columbia, SC: 3.9 TCR = 138% of Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing / Traffic Control Devices / Pavement Marking / Sign Install / Sales and Rental Equipment / Railroad and Utility BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4401 - West Columbia, SC safety composite

4401 - West Columbia, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

4401 - West Columbia, SC: 2.3 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2018

4401 - West Columbia, SC's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.3 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · West Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 138% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #27/38
  • PHOTO 3101 - Denver, CO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3101 - Denver, CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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4401 - West Columbia, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4401 - West Columbia, SC averages 3.9 TCR (138% of the Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing / Traffic Control Devices / Pavement Marking / Sign Install / Sales and Rental Equipment / Railroad and Utility BLS benchmark).

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

4401 - West Columbia, SC TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=5.4 · BLS 2.8

Where 4401 - West Columbia, SC falls in its industry

4,078 Heavy Highway Equipment and Ma establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 38 Heavy Highway Equipment and Ma employers in South Carolina.

4401 - West Columbia, SC (42 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 4401 - West Columbia, SC
4401 - West Columbia, SC (42 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

4401 - West Columbia, SC has fewer employees than the Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 5.4 4.1 4 0 0
2017 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SC · West Columbia

4,078 Heavy Highway Equipment and Manufacturing / Traffic Control Devices / Pavement Marking / Sign Install / Sales and Rental Equipment / Railroad and Utility employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West 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 3101 - Denver, CO 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Construction Company, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & J Schlaegel, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDOT-Inhouse Construction | 1501 W. Pershing Rd. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Production Company, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newberry Electric Cooperative,Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Resource Center PNG 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group South Carolina, LLC- Charleston Division 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Alamance Foods - Worth Street Plant 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 96 Cannon Falls, MN - Production 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Fairborn 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 107 FAMILY FARE -Wyoming MI FF LLC #38-2750461 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rex Reliable Heating & Cooling, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEC-Ne Braunfels 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&S Steel, Inc. 42 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.