Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Blythewood

Blythewood, SC · ~176 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blythewood runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Blythewood: 1.4 TCR = 65% of Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blythewood safety composite

Blythewood scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Blythewood held a steady TCR band

Blythewood's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.4 in 2021 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.4 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Blythewood, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P76
  • PHOTO Aero-Glen Internatio…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aero-Glen International (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blythewood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blythewood averages 1.4 TCR (65% of the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Blythewood TCR series: 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Blythewood falls in its industry

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Blythewood (176 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blythewood
Blythewood (176 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Blythewood has more employees than the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, sc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2023 2.3 0.9 5 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · SC · Blythewood

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 36 employers in Blythewood, 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 Aero-Glen International 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4516 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Choice Fasteners 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 31 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - SPARTANBURG SC 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 40 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3495-11DG010 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2948 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koyo Richland Plant 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR JTEKT North America 447 FTE
NAT-TCR Danville RDC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TransOil Marketing LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Raintree Construction DBA Rockwell Industrial & Mining 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tubular steel 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Virginia's Choice, Inc. - Moundsville 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boss Steel Inc. 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSI 176 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. 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.