Fire retardant chemical preparations manufacturing · South Carolina

Apexical Spartanburg

Spartanburg, SC · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apexical Spartanburg runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fire retardant chemical preparations manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Apexical Spartanburg: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Fire retardant chemical preparations manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apexical Spartanburg safety composite

Apexical Spartanburg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Apexical Spartanburg held a steady TCR band

Apexical Spartanburg's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Spartanburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO Euclid Cleveland
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Euclid Cleveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apexical Spartanburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apexical Spartanburg averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Fire retardant chemical preparations manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apexical Spartanburg TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Apexical Spartanburg falls in its industry

485 Fire retardant chemical prepar establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Fire retardant chemical prepar employers in South Carolina.

Apexical Spartanburg (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Apexical Spartanburg
Apexical Spartanburg (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Apexical Spartanburg has fewer employees than the Fire retardant chemical preparations man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · SC · Spartanburg

485 Fire retardant chemical preparations manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 294 employers in Spartanburg, 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 Euclid Cleveland 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fujifilm Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Plant 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR VinTech Nano Materials 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FAIRFIELD PUMPED STORAGE HYDRO 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE DENMARK DISTRICT OFFICE 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenwood Operations Center 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Resource Center - PNG 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPARTANBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartanburg Medical Center 5,386 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartanburg County 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartanburg County Government 1,561 FTE
NAT-TCR Gonzales 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ISI Berkeley 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Moorehead 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Fiberglass 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bennett Timber CO LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gross Family Ent. Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Washington Refrigeration LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stone Source, Inc. 30 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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