Overpass construction · South Carolina

Cherokee Inc.

Columbia, SC · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Inc. runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Overpass construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Cherokee Inc.: 1.4 TCR = 50% of Overpass construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Inc. safety composite

Cherokee Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 Inc.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2024

Cherokee Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 50% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #7/38
  • PHOTO Reeves Piedmont Regi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reeves Piedmont Region Columbia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Inc. averages 1.4 TCR (50% of the Overpass construction BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Cherokee Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Overpass construction establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 38 Overpass construction employers in South Carolina.

Cherokee Inc. (37 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee Inc.
Cherokee Inc. (37 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cherokee Inc. has fewer employees than the Overpass construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SC · Columbia

4,078 Overpass construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 Reeves Piedmont Region Columbia 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 31 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asphalt Paving 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pave-Rite, Inc. 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rainey Generating Station 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleet/Radio (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Shelving & Mirror #565 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR School Health Corporation 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Heating & Cooling Services, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Egelhof Controls Corp. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Dog Drilling 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peninsula Foliage 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hereford ISD 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Binghamton Slag Roofing Co., Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wylie 37 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, 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.