General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · South Carolina

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal

Georgetown, SC · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal: 1.6 TCR = 35% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal safety composite

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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)
B 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.5

2022→2024

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal injury rate improved

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.8 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.8 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Georgetown, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #16/71
  • PHOTO AV Transportation Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AV Transportation Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 71 General freight trucking, long employers in South Carolina.

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal (48 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal
Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal (48 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ard's Trucking Company, Inc - Georgetown Terminal has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SC · Georgetown

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 53 employers in Georgetown, 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 AV Transportation Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robstown South 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittston, PA - Enterprise Way 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATT Memphis Depot 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BEAUFORT DISTRICT OFFICE 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmetto Sitework Services, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE HUNTER SPECIALTIES, INC. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Pole, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgetown County 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper - Georgetown Mill 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR 625 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 625 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Plote Construction Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Force Environmental, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Independent School District 2897 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lester & Rosalie Anixter Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EasyPak 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brighton 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Findlay Vinyl 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applied Medical Technology 48 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.