Loading and unloading services at rail terminals · South Carolina

Charleston

N. Charleston, SC · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charleston runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Loading and unloading services at rail terminals workplace, earning a grade C.

Charleston: 5.2 TCR = 115% of Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charleston safety composite

Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Charleston: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Charleston's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · N. Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 115% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Benicia UP AAW
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Benicia UP AAW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charleston averages 5.2 TCR (115% of the Loading and unloading services at rail terminals BLS benchmark).

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

Charleston TCR series: 2017=0 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Charleston falls in its industry

409 Loading and unloading services establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Charleston (82 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Charleston
Charleston (82 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Charleston has more employees than the Loading and unloading services at rail t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2022 10.3 8.2 4 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · SC · N. Charleston

409 Loading and unloading services at rail terminals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 25 employers in N. 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 Benicia UP AAW 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hulcher Services Inc - Sauget 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Paul AAW 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE NNOB VCSN UNITS 1 2 3 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Clad, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE IG Design Group Americas, Inc. - Leesville, SC 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morcon Tissue - SC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR HoneywellSC32 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR C411 Charleston 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLESTON COUNTY DSS 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston Adult Det Center 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Gould's Olive Branch #30 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton Machine Company Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Place at Martinez 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Siskiyou County Sheriffs Office 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roese Pipeline - Main 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Rite Construction, Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mortellaro'S Nursery Ltd Schertz, Tx 82 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.