Refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services, industrial and commercial-type · South Carolina

Carolina Refrigeration Service

Lexington, SC · ~98 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Refrigeration Service runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services, industrial and commercial-type workplace, earning a grade B.

Carolina Refrigeration Service: 1.3 TCR = 62% of Refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services, industrial and commercial-type BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Refrigeration Service safety composite

Carolina Refrigeration Service scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Carolina Refrigeration Service held a steady TCR band

Carolina Refrigeration Service's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Lexington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.3 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/46
  • PHOTO Seither & Cherry Qua…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seither & Cherry Quad Cities, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Refrigeration Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Refrigeration Service averages 1.3 TCR (62% of the Refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services, industrial and commercial-type BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Refrigeration Service TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Carolina Refrigeration Service falls in its industry

2,560 Refrigeration equipment repair establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 46 Refrigeration equipment repair employers in South Carolina.

Carolina Refrigeration Service (98 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Refrigeration Service
Carolina Refrigeration Service (98 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Carolina Refrigeration Service has more employees than the Refrigeration equipment repair and maint median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · SC · Lexington

2,560 Refrigeration equipment repair and maintenance services, industrial and commercial-type employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, 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 Seither & Cherry Quad Cities, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 206 Caterpillar KK East Peoria IL 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenway Equipment Weiner Coorporate 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Greater Northeast : SVC-Plainview NY-USA 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bethune 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE JIPSD 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concept Packaging Group 1 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE allnex USA, Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR 535 - Elizabeth-Int Branch 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WWS - Fairfield Inn Winston Salem 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Americas Resins and Global FM : Springfield RD Lab 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ON Semiconductor Nampa 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Code 3 St. Louis 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Stockton 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hankin Group 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luxfer Magtech 98 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, 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.