Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · South Carolina

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine

West Columbia, SC · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade D.

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine: 3.4 TCR = 163% of Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine safety composite

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine: 2.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2021

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.8 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · West Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #28/46
  • PHOTO MULLEN INDUSTRAL HAN…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MULLEN INDUSTRAL HANDLING CORP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine averages 3.4 TCR (163% of the Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 2.1

Where Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine falls in its industry

2,560 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 46 Construction machinery and equ employers in South Carolina.

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine (138 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine
Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine (138 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Blanchard Machinery Company - Columbia Machine has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment rep median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 4.1 2.0 6 0 0
2020 2.8 2.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · SC · West Columbia

2,560 Construction machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services 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 MULLEN INDUSTRAL HANDLING CORP 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Equipment Company Romulus 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nortrax Chippewa Falls 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peraton - USPS Central Repair Facility 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southern MEP, Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sumter Packaging Corporation 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mankiewicz Coatings LLC 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mclaughlin Body Co. Inc 138 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 Viant Collegeville, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Albuquerque North 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bauer Equipment America texas 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SC & ASF - Voorhees 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store #097 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE 125 Meijer Tipp City Oh 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westby Cooperative Creamery 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Industries-Bushnell, Florida 138 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.