Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · South Carolina
Apex Tool Group - Sumter
Sumter, SC · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.8
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Apex Tool Group - Sumter runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade C.
Apex Tool Group - Sumter: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Apex Tool Group - Sumter safety composite
Apex Tool Group - Sumter scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).
69/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- C 3.8 per 100 workers
Safer than 66% of industry peers
- DART rate
- B 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 86% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 51% 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
Apex Tool Group - Sumter: 1.3 → 4.8 TCR
Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024
Apex Tool Group - Sumter's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 332111 · Sumter, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #2/4
- PHOTO Ellwood Texas Forge …
- BOOK 4y book
- INJ 12 inj
- SIZE ~95 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Ellwood Texas Forge Houston (0.0 TCR gap)
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Apex Tool Group - Sumter in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Gerdau- Parago
Gerdau- Paragould RP
3.9 TCR
- Wyman Gordon F
Wyman Gordon Forgings, Inc.
3.9 TCR
- This site
Apex Tool Group - Sumter
3.8 TCR
- Ellwood Texas
Ellwood Texas Forge Houston
3.8 TCR
- Alloy & Stainl
Alloy & Stainless Fasteners
3.8 TCR
What this shows Apex Tool Group - Sumter averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).
Apex Tool Group - Sumter TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2022=2 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3
Where Apex Tool Group - Sumter falls in its industry
241 Hot forgings made from purchas establishmentsSafer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Hot forgings made from purchas employers in South Carolina.
Apex Tool Group - Sumter has more employees than the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 7.2 | 3.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
332111 · SC · Sumter
241 Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 130 employers in Sumter, 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 | Ellwood Texas Forge Houston | 3.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Alloy & Stainless Fasteners | 3.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Gerdau- Paragould RP | 3.9 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Wyman Gordon Forgings, Inc. | 3.9 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | ASIS | 95 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Red Collar Pet Foods | 95 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Hills Pet Nutrition | 95 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Archroma U.S. Inc. | 95 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Thompson Construction Group | 2,328 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Prisma Health Tuomey | 1,440 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Sumter Utilities, Inc. | 1,370 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant | 1,350 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Alabama Dumpster | 3.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Twin Cities Orthopedics - Vadnais Heights | 3.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Columbus Oh - 3273 | 3.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Central Transport - 379 | 3.8 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Sodexo at Sharp Grossmont Hospital Pom | 95 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Linden | 95 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Biomedical Polymers Inc | 95 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Last Mile Deliveries LLC | 95 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.