General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · South Carolina

BW Mitchum Trucking

Summerville, SC · ~137 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BW Mitchum Trucking runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

BW Mitchum Trucking: 2.9 TCR = 65% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BW Mitchum Trucking safety composite

BW Mitchum Trucking scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Rising injury rate

BW Mitchum Trucking: 1.4 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

BW Mitchum Trucking's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.4 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Summerville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #37/71
  • PHOTO Heartland Express Co…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heartland Express Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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BW Mitchum Trucking in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BW Mitchum Trucking averages 2.9 TCR (65% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

BW Mitchum Trucking TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=6 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where BW Mitchum Trucking falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #37 safest of 71 General freight trucking, long employers in South Carolina.

BW Mitchum Trucking (137 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BW Mitchum Trucking
BW Mitchum Trucking (137 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

BW Mitchum Trucking has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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
2024 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 9 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · SC · Summerville

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 188 employers in Summerville, 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 Heartland Express Corporate 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seward Motor Freight, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IAH LTL 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baggett Transportation Company 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE H&W Electrical Corporation 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlisle Finishing 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaffney Plant 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belton - 905 Highway 247 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorne research - Omni one 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scout Boats, Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerville Medical Center 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1037 420 FTE
NAT-TCR J C Porter Construction 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Sandy Correctional Complex 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MCE Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ardisam, Inc. 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Birmingham Bhm 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sealed Air Corporation 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA-US-MN-Brooklyn Park-Office 137 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, 2019. 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.