Fiber, textile recovery from textile mill waste and rags · South Carolina

Bower's Fibers Inc

Name: Bower's Fibers Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Lancaster, SC · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bower's Fibers Inc runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fiber, textile recovery from textile mill waste and rags workplace, earning a grade C.

Bower's Fibers Inc: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Fiber, textile recovery from textile mill waste and rags BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bower's Fibers Inc safety composite

Bower's Fibers Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−7.7

2017→2018

Bower's Fibers Inc injury rate improved

Bower's Fibers Inc's TCR fell 7.7 from 7.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.7 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314999 · Lancaster, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #3/5
PHOTO Pyrotek - Spokane 14D
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pyrotek - Spokane 14D (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Bower's Fibers Inc averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Fiber, textile recovery from textile mill waste and rags BLS benchmark).

Bower's Fibers Inc TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Bower's Fibers Inc falls in its industry

89 Fiber, textile recovery from t establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Fiber, textile recovery from t employers in South Carolina.

Bower's Fibers Inc (28 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Bower's Fibers Inc has fewer employees than the Fiber, textile recovery from textile mil median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	7.7	7.7	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314999 · SC · Lancaster

89 Fiber, textile recovery from textile mill waste and rags employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 51 employers in Lancaster, 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	Pyrotek - Spokane 14D	SPOKANE VALLEY, WA	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aerostar Madison	MADISON, SD	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Industrial Fabrics TX	HOUSTON, TX	3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plant SP	CHICKAMAUGA, GA	4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CREW QTRS SAVAGE ROAD	CHARLESTON	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	METER LAB	WEST COLUMBIA	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Florence Transmission Headquarters	FLORENCE	28 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mt. Pleasant Business Office	MT PLEASANT	28 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Morningside of Lancaster	Lancaster	1,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lancaster County Government	Lancaster	1,009 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nutramax Laboratories Inc.	Lancaster	592 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nutramax SC1	Lancaster	375 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lehigh Lansdale - Hagerstown - DTI	Hagerstown, MD	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab	Wilkesboro, NC	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	El Rio Grande Latin Market #5	Garland, TX	3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tysons Corner (HR)	Tysons Corner, VA	3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Waverly Plastics	Waverly, IA	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bowery Bay	Astoria, NY	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BWE LLC, Springfield, Ma	Springfield, MA	28 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Spang Builders, Inc.	Kennebunkport, ME	28 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: 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.