Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Carolina International Trucks

Columbia, SC · ~269 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina International Trucks runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Carolina International Trucks: 4.2 TCR = 190% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina International Trucks safety composite

Carolina International Trucks scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−3.5

2016→2020

Carolina International Trucks injury rate improved

Carolina International Trucks's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.5 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2018=5.1 · 2020=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #11/17
  • PHOTO Wisconsin Kenworth -…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wisconsin Kenworth - La Crosse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina International Trucks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina International Trucks averages 4.2 TCR (190% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina International Trucks TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2018=5.1 · 2020=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Carolina International Trucks falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 17 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in South Carolina.

Carolina International Trucks (269 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina International Trucks
Carolina International Trucks (269 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Carolina International Trucks has more employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 2.0 2.0 5 0 0
2018 5.1 0.9 17 0 0
2016 5.5 3.9 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · SC · Columbia

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in 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 Wisconsin Kenworth - La Crosse 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KS Liberal 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2803 RTC CHAMPAIGN 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1003 RTC LAREDO 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Landmark Construction 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Greenville Plant (DGV) 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0360 - CHARLESTON SC WHSE 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Child Nutrition 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Forrest City Medical Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1696 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownstown Assembly 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1214 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.O.E. Construction 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cigar Factory Complex 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04971 - El Cajon Hauling 269 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.