Retail Hardware Stores · South Carolina

Charleston, Sc #00129

N Charleston, SC · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charleston, Sc #00129 runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Charleston, Sc #00129: 13.8 TCR = 405% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charleston, Sc #00129 safety composite

Charleston, Sc #00129 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Charleston, Sc #00129: 6.5 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 34.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2023

Charleston, Sc #00129's TCR rose 7.2 from 6.5 in 2019 to 13.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 34.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · N Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 405% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO 0315 - DOVER, DE
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0315 - DOVER, DE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charleston, Sc #00129 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charleston, Sc #00129 averages 13.8 TCR (405% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Charleston, Sc #00129 TCR series: 2019=6.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=34.9 · 2023=13.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Charleston, Sc #00129 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Retail Hardware Stores employers in South Carolina.

Charleston, Sc #00129 (22 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Charleston, Sc #00129
Charleston, Sc #00129 (22 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Charleston, Sc #00129 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 13.7 13.7 2 0 0
2022 34.9 20.9 5 0 0
2021 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2020 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2019 6.5 6.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · SC · N Charleston

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 21 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 0315 - DOVER, DE 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0592 - LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CEDAR PARK, TX #02964 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0196 - ALBANY, NY 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ISE Newberry Liquid Plant 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summerville SC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allendale Biomass LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Business Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unit # 0739 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unit #0739 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston, SC HVAC 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR 44551D - CHARLESTON PEC 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Finnmark Property Services-PDX 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DK and S Enterprises Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TAC Air - PVU 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack in the Box #3411 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Jersey Vlg, Tx #00079 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawnee, Ks #00186 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville West, Fl #00213 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apache Junction, Az #00252 22 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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