Telecommunications · South Carolina

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC

West Columbia, SC · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC: 4.5 TCR = 162% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC safety composite

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.74× in 2020

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 7.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · West Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 162% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO Oregon Branch
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oregon Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC averages 4.5 TCR (162% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=7.9 · BLS 2.8

Where ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Telecommunications employers in South Carolina.

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC (31 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC
ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC (31 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

ANS:ANCLB - ANCLB-Columbia, SC has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2020 7.9 7.9 2 0 0
2019 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · SC · West Columbia

1,605 Telecommunications 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 Oregon Branch 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 835 Warehouse Drive, Toledo, OH 43615 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LCS:LC044 - LC044-Nokesville, VA 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1545 Marquette St. SW, Wyoming, MI 49509 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SC Operations 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenWood, Inc. - GE Gas Turbine 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Wastewater Treatment Plant 31 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 Plumbing & AC Medic 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Residential -Thistledown 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Harrisburg 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 408 Montgomery, Al 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CBC:CB123 - CB123 -Canton, MI 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gillette Retirement Community LLC dba Primrose of Gillette 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE FBT:FT011 - FT011-Fredericksburg, VA-Shann 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE VCI:VC067 - VC067-VCI - San Marcos, CA 31 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.