Commercial bakeries · South Carolina

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC

West Columbia, SC · ~342 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC safety composite

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2021→2022

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC injury rate improved

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.5 in 2021 to 2.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.5 · 2022=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Harbar LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~342 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harbar LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC TCR series: 2021=3.5 · 2022=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 13 Commercial bakeries employers in South Carolina.

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC (342 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC
Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC (342 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 2.9 2.9 11 0 0
2021 3.5 3.0 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · SC · West Columbia

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Columbia, 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 Harbar LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAMARILLO CA DEPOT 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS OH DEPOT 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Renfrow Industrial 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2687 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millennium Campus 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agape Hospice of the Lowcountry 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR TRANSPORTATION 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North Appleton 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pavestone - DALP 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 055460-Northridge Po 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goleta 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottsdale Mfg 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tinker AFB, Civil Engineering Services 342 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schreiber Foods, Inc. Carthage 342 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: 2022, 2021. 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.