Power-driven handtools manufacturing · South Carolina

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations

Name: Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Lexington, SC · ~313 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Power-driven handtools manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Power-driven handtools manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations safety composite

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.4

2017→2018

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations injury rate improved

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations's TCR fell 1.4 from 3.5 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333991 · Lexington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

DART 0.5 DART
RANK P42
PHOTO ITW Residential & Re…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~313 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITW Residential & Renovation Elgin (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
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2.8
T.C. Service C

2.8
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2.6

What this shows Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Power-driven handtools manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations falls in its industry

57 Power-driven handtools manufac establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations (313 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Apex Tool Group - Lexington Operations has more employees than the Power-driven handtools manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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	2.1	0.5	6	2	0
2017	3.5	1.7	9	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333991 · SC · Lexington

57 Power-driven handtools manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, 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	ITW Residential & Renovation Elgin	ELGIN, IL	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	T.C. Service Co.	WILLOUGHBY, OH	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ITW Residential & Renovation Bartlett	BARTLETT, IL	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MIC	BROOKFIELD, WI	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Grinds - Columbia SC	WEST COLUMBIA	313 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1382	GREENWOOD	313 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4593	ROCK HILL	313 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1135	HARTSVILLE	313 FTE
CITY-NEAR	County of Lexington	Lexington	1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Michelin US5 Lexington SC	Lexington	1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Michelin North America US7	Lexington	838 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Columbia	Lexington	760 FTE
NAT-TCR	MS - Portsmouth, VA - 5POVA	Portsmout, VA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	LKC CBTC Flushing	New York, NY	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atlanta 04 Bondo	Atlanta, GA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	HES Duncan, OK (Plant 2)	Duncan, OK	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Antioch Plant 1 & 2	Dalton, GA	313 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Savannah (Gasav)	Savannah, GA	313 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pitt Plastics Pittsburg	Pittsburg, KS	313 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Goodrich - Turbine Fuel Technologies- (RS271)	West Des Moines, IA	313 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.

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