County commissioners · South Carolina

Cherokee County Council

Gaffney, SC · ~295 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee County Council runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical County commissioners workplace, earning a grade F.

Cherokee County Council: 7.3 TCR = 229% of County commissioners BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee County Council safety composite

Cherokee County Council scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cherokee County Council: 4.6 → 85.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 85.5 TCR · DART/TCR 8.18× in 2024

Cherokee County Council's TCR rose 80.9 from 4.6 in 2017 to 85.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 8.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Gaffney, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 229% of ind

  • DART 59.9 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Town of Union
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 125 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Union (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee County Council in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee County Council averages 7.3 TCR (229% of the County commissioners BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee County Council TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=12 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=11.8 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=85.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Cherokee County Council falls in its industry

158 County commissioners establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cherokee County Council (295 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee County Council
Cherokee County Council (295 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Cherokee County Council has more employees than the County commissioners median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · SC · Gaffney

158 County commissioners employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Gaffney, 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 Town of Union 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Rosemount 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin County Government 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITY OF MORRISON 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE D&W Fine Pack 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oconee SC 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE HONEA PATH 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2832 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA, Inc. 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCCC-- Main 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaffney 426 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln Elementary 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR S03315 - Northwest Regional Landfill 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Peterson Farms 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pan American Grain Company-Arecibo 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Toshiba America Business Solutions - Lake Forest 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa on Del Monte Golf Course 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Lakeville 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver Office 295 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.