Stevedoring services · South Carolina

Ceres Charleston

Charleston, SC · ~504 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ceres Charleston runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Stevedoring services workplace, earning a grade C.

Ceres Charleston: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Stevedoring services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ceres Charleston safety composite

Ceres Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2016→2019

Ceres Charleston injury rate improved

Ceres Charleston's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.9 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Port Terminal
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~504 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Port Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ceres Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ceres Charleston averages 5.4 TCR (119% of the Stevedoring services BLS benchmark).

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

Ceres Charleston TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ceres Charleston falls in its industry

391 Stevedoring services establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #7 safest of 15 Stevedoring services employers in South Carolina.

Ceres Charleston (504 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ceres Charleston
Ceres Charleston (504 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ceres Charleston has more employees than the Stevedoring services 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
2019 5.3 4.1 17 0 0
2018 4.8 4.5 15 0 0
2016 5.9 5.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · SC · Charleston

391 Stevedoring services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 Port Terminal 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston TX 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSA Pacific- Portland Bulk Terminal 5 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oconee County Governement 504 FTE
STATE-SIZE STR0785 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Corp. & Engineering 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crane Willistion SC 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Fluortek, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1443 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Free Bed Metro Health Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Maschhoffs, LLC - Columbus Office 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SJP Health Center 504 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elmer's Crane and Dozer, Inc. 504 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abilene Motor Express LLC 504 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairhaven HQ 504 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: 2019, 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.