Medical Transport · South Carolina

Cherokee County SC Operations

Gaffney, SC · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee County SC Operations runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Medical Transport workplace, earning a grade D.

Cherokee County SC Operations: 5.6 TCR = 146% of Medical Transport BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee County SC Operations safety composite

Cherokee County SC Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Cherokee County SC Operations: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2020

Cherokee County SC Operations's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 11.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Gaffney, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Nelson County EMS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson County EMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee County SC Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee County SC Operations averages 5.6 TCR (146% of the Medical Transport BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee County SC Operations TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=11.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Cherokee County SC Operations falls in its industry

976 Medical Transport establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

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 18 Medical Transport employers in South Carolina.

Cherokee County SC Operations (40 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee County SC Operations
Cherokee County SC Operations (40 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Cherokee County SC Operations has fewer employees than the Medical Transport median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2020 11.1 9.3 3 3 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · SC · Gaffney

976 Medical Transport 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 Nelson County EMS 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Medical Response Division 3 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Com-Care Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fountain Hills FireOperations 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Thinning Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Region Complex (Florence) 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEC Main Location 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sands Building Group 40 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 BAINBRIDGE 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 585 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland @ Meadowbrook 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/ALLPA Terminal 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000127 Quickchek Food Stores 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Rochester 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Beloit 40 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: 2020, 2019. 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.