Food Services · South Carolina

500163300 Clemson Univ.

Clemson, SC · ~793 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500163300 Clemson Univ. runs at 496% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500163300 Clemson Univ.: 14.9 TCR = 496% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500163300 Clemson Univ. safety composite

500163300 Clemson Univ. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 14.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

500163300 Clemson Univ.: 5.3 → 24.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 24.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

500163300 Clemson Univ.'s TCR rose 19.1 from 5.3 in 2023 to 24.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 496% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #128/132
  • PHOTO Kern
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~793 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kern (0.0 TCR gap)

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500163300 Clemson Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500163300 Clemson Univ. averages 14.9 TCR (496% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500163300 Clemson Univ. TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=24.4 · BLS 3.0

Where 500163300 Clemson Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #128 safest of 132 Food Services employers in South Carolina.

500163300 Clemson Univ. (793 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 500163300 Clemson Univ.
500163300 Clemson Univ. (793 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500163300 Clemson Univ. 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 24.4 9.2 8 0 0
2023 5.3 4.1 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · SC · Clemson

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 19 employers in Clemson, 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 Kern 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sierra Vista Regional Med Ctr 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grafton School District 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4021-000016789 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6014 789 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holset Palmetto Plant 800 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAHLE Behr Charleston, Inc. 779 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLeod Health Seacoast 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clemson University 8,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 8T 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clemson Downs 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1379 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Wayside Farm Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wabash Steel 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lee's Piggly Wiggly, Inc 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Precast Company, Inc. 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rubbermaid 793 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc 793 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grant Street 793 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-Ea-Lax-Los Angeles-Lax-Trm1 793 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.