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

Bison Transport USA - Sumter

Sumter, SC · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Transport USA - Sumter runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Bison Transport USA - Sumter: 2.1 TCR = 47% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Transport USA - Sumter safety composite

Bison Transport USA - Sumter scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bison Transport USA - Sumter: 1.9 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Bison Transport USA - Sumter's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.9 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Sumter, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #25/71
  • PHOTO Orlando, FL - S Oran…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orlando, FL - S Orange Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bison Transport USA - Sumter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Transport USA - Sumter averages 2.1 TCR (47% 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

Bison Transport USA - Sumter TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Bison Transport USA - Sumter falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #25 safest of 71 General freight trucking, long employers in South Carolina.

Bison Transport USA - Sumter (163 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Bison Transport USA - Sumter
Bison Transport USA - Sumter (163 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bison Transport USA - Sumter has more 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 2.4 1.4 7 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SC · Sumter

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 · 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 Orlando, FL - S Orange Ave 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NTB-NAGR 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EWR 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GA020 - GA-Port Wentworth-250 Grange 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE York Site 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1064 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0639 LOWE S OF AIKEN SC 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE 011-00002 163 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 The Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Container High Point 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Air System Components 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph'S Gourmet Pasta 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Austin Engineering Co., Inc. 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power One, LLC 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tavo Packaging 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE PV Transport 163 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. 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.