Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · South Carolina

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia

West Columbia, SC · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia: 1.3 TCR = 45% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia safety composite

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2019→2020

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia injury rate improved

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia's TCR fell 1.3 from 1.9 in 2019 to 0.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.9 · 2020=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #4/38
  • PHOTO Paradigm Construction
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paradigm Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia averages 1.3 TCR (45% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2020=0.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #4 safest of 38 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in South Carolina.

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia (150 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia
Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia (150 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bu 530 Blythe Construction Columbia has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2020 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SC · West Columbia

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction 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 Paradigm Construction 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eutaw Construction Company, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angel Brothers Enterprises, LTD. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ragle Construction 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Bethune, SC 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPG- Blythewood 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCL Corporation (BP), LLC 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3D Systems - Marine Drive 150 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 MRY Station 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR VAM USA Hardy Rd. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Invacare North American Sales 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Town & Country Nursing Center LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Uno Foods, INc 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE IFS Coatings, Inc.(Texas) 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steele Memorial Hospital 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry County Nursing Home 150 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.