Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products · South Carolina

Central Wire Inc SC

Lancaster, SC · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Wire Inc SC runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Wire Inc SC: 7.4 TCR = 225% of Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Wire Inc SC safety composite

Central Wire Inc SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Central Wire Inc SC: 2.7 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2022

Central Wire Inc SC's TCR rose 10.5 from 2.7 in 2018 to 13.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Lancaster, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 225% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Liberty Wire Johnstown
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Wire Johnstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Wire Inc SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Wire Inc SC averages 7.4 TCR (225% of the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products BLS benchmark).

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

Central Wire Inc SC TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Wire Inc SC falls in its industry

163 Drawing iron or steel wire fro establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Drawing iron or steel wire fro employers in South Carolina.

Central Wire Inc SC (38 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Wire Inc SC
Central Wire Inc SC (38 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Central Wire Inc SC has fewer employees than the Drawing iron or steel wire from purchase median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2022 13.2 10.6 5 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2020 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2019 7.3 2.5 2 1 0
2018 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · SC · Lancaster

163 Drawing iron or steel wire from purchased iron or steel and fabricating wire products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 51 employers in Lancaster, 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 Liberty Wire Johnstown 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Wire Inc Illinois 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richard's Fence Company 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Wire : Kent 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Soli Organic Inc. - Anderson 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Orchard Management 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOREROOM OPERATIONS CENTER 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleet/Radio (Columbia) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morningside of Lancaster 1,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster County Government 1,009 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutramax Laboratories Inc. 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutramax SC1 375 FTE
NAT-TCR HG520 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG322 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastside 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Henagar 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Plus Feeds Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDM Sparks, Nevada 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE HZ JDB Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG269 38 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.