Cherokee County Council
Open-data reference.
GAFFNEY, SC | County commissioners
~295 avg employees | 8 years of OSHA data
Cherokee County Council has an average TCR of 17.1, which is 534% of the industry average (3.2) for County commissioners. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for Cherokee County Council
Cherokee County Council operates an establishment with approximately 295 full-time equivalent workers in GAFFNEY, SC, classified under the County commissioners industry (NAICS 921120). Across 8 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 125 recordable injuries, 19 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 17.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.2 for County commissioners, Cherokee County Council's workforce experiences 534% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 8 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Cherokee County Council as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Cherokee County Council's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 921120 — County commissioners.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
7 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 23,384 hours worked = 59.87 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee County Council (this establishment) | 17.10 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Legislative bodies (e.g., federal, local, and state) industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 921120 |
| South Carolina state avg (all industries) | 12.93 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Cherokee County Council to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 10 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 10 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 32 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 16 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 16 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 18 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 31 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 11 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 85.5 | 59.9 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 11.8 | 1.9 | 25 | 7 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 15 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.6 | 0.7 | 14 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.8 | 3.5 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 12.0 | 3.1 | 28 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4.6 | 1.3 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cherokee County Council's safety grade?
How is the safety grade calculated?
How many injuries has Cherokee County Council reported?
Where does PlainSafetyScore get its data?
Explore More Safety Data
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.