Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing · South Carolina

Carolina Poly

Chester, SC · ~484 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Poly runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Carolina Poly: 9.1 TCR = 277% of Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Poly safety composite

Carolina Poly scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2017→2024

Carolina Poly injury rate improved

Carolina Poly's TCR fell 1.5 from 5.9 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=17.2 · 2019=8.6 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326111 · Chester, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 277% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO F&D Plastics
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 273 inj
  • SIZE ~484 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: F&D Plastics (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carolina Poly in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Poly averages 9.1 TCR (277% of the Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Poly TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=17.2 · 2019=8.6 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Carolina Poly falls in its industry

322 Bags, plastics film, single wa establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 4 Bags, plastics film, single wa employers in South Carolina.

Carolina Poly (484 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Poly
Carolina Poly (484 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 118 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Carolina Poly has more employees than the Bags, plastics film, single wall or mult median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.5 4.0 36 0 0
2023 6.7 5.4 53 0 0
2022 11.9 9.4 68 7 0
2019 8.6 6.4 43 0 0
2018 17.2 10.8 65 0 0
2017 5.9 1.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326111 · SC · Chester

322 Bags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR F&D Plastics 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALPHA INDUSTRIES INC 1542 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNF Jersey City 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR colormasters - plant 2 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Velux Greenwood LLC 484 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbell Power Systems - Aiken 484 FTE
STATE-SIZE IVC - Dairy Drive Greenville 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE MAU @ Kimberly Clark Beech Island 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1603 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Timber Ridge at Talus 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Witwer Construction, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City North Mo - 3342 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaver Dam Wi - 3224 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medical City Frisco 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE BETA Technologies, Inc 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loews Sapphire Falls Resort 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Creek Mountain Resort 484 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.