Telecommunications · South Carolina

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC

Name: ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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North Charleston, SC · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC: 4.0 TCR = 144% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC safety composite

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC: 2.7 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2020

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC's TCR rose 3.9 from 2.7 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 144% of ind

DART 6.7 DART
RANK #13/16
PHOTO LCS:LC037 - LC037-Ok…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LCS:LC037 - LC037-Okahumpka, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC averages 4.0 TCR (144% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Telecommunications employers in South Carolina.

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, SC (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

ANS:ANCST - ANCST-Charleston, 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
2020	6.7	6.7	2
2019	2.7	0.0	1
2018	2.7	2.7	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · SC · North Charleston

1,605 Telecommunications employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	LCS:LC037 - LC037-Okahumpka, FL	OKAHUMPKA, FL	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	South Central Indiana REMC	MARTINSVILLE, IN	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PAU:PA030 - PA030-Pauley-Grand Junction, C	GRAND JUNCTION, CO	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NSC:NSK11 - NSK11-North Sky - Sherwood, OR	SHERWOOD, OR	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SC Operations	SUMTER	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Little River Electric Cooperative, Inc.	ABBEVILLE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GreenWood, Inc. - GE Gas Turbine	GREENVILLE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spartanburg Wastewater Treatment Plant	SPARTANBURG	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Charleston County	North Charleston	2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palmetto Goodwill Services	North Charleston	1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Trident Medical Center	North Charleston	1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SRC Charleston ISS Division	North Charleston	815 FTE
NAT-TCR	B&B Plant NBPT	Newburyport, MA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	TXPASA-OPI-PASADENA	Pasadena, TX	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	LCS:LC037 - LC037-Okahumpka, FL	Okahumpka, FL	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hansen Technologies	Commerce, GA	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CBC:CB123 - CB123 -Canton, MI	Canton, MI	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FBT:FT011 - FT011-Fredericksburg, VA-Shann	Fredericksburg, VA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gillette Retirement Community LLC dba Primrose of Gillette	Gillette, WY	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	VCI:VC067 - VC067-VCI - San Marcos, CA	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.

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