Cultured stone products (except plumbing fixtures) manufacturing · South Carolina

Boral Stone Chester

Name: Boral Stone Chester Workplace Safety Data
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Chester, SC · ~291 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Boral Stone Chester runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cultured stone products (except plumbing fixtures) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Boral Stone Chester: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Cultured stone products (except plumbing fixtures) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boral Stone Chester safety composite

Boral Stone Chester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Boral Stone Chester: 0.5 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2019

Boral Stone Chester's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.5 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Chester, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #10/47
PHOTO Sterling
BOOK 3y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~291 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterling (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.5
Sterling

1.5
Kyowa America

1.5
Kastalon Inc.

1.5
Mauser Packagi

1.5

What this shows Boral Stone Chester averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Cultured stone products (except plumbing fixtures) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Boral Stone Chester TCR series: 2017=0.5 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Boral Stone Chester falls in its industry

2,838 Cultured stone products (excep establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 47 Cultured stone products (excep employers in South Carolina.

Boral Stone Chester (291 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Boral Stone Chester has more employees than the Cultured stone products (except plumbing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019	3.2	2.9	9
2018	0.7	0.7	2
2017	0.5	0.5	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · SC · Chester

2,838 Cultured stone products (except plumbing fixtures) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sterling	STERLING HEIGHTS, MI	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kyowa America Corporation	PORTLAND, TN	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kastalon Inc.	ALSIP, IL	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mauser Packaging Solutions	GEISMAR, LA	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fripp Island Hospitality LLC	FRIPP ISLAND	291 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spartanburg	SPARTANBURG	291 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ARC Services	ROCK HILL	291 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CM Tucker Lumber of Pageland	PAGELAND	292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carolina Poly	Chester	484 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MUSC Health Chester Medical Center	Chester	344 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chester Plywood - WP	Chester	324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1603	Chester	198 FTE
NAT-TCR	SAO : LSM - Elyria, OH	Elyria, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Litecontrol	Plympton, MA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	AMEREN MISSOURI - Meramec Plant	St. Louis, MO	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ellington Drive, Conyers	Conyers, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Davis Correctional	Holdenville, OK	291 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bemis North America - Fremont	Fremont, OH	291 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DePuy Synthes BRW Plant West Chester	West Chester, PA	291 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Philips 801 Plum	Plum, PA	291 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.