Woodproducts Manufacturing · South Carolina

Chester Engineered Wood

Chester, SC · ~146 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chester Engineered Wood runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Woodproducts Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Chester Engineered Wood: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Woodproducts Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chester Engineered Wood safety composite

Chester Engineered Wood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Chester Engineered Wood held a steady TCR band

Chester Engineered Wood's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.6 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.6 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321213 · Chester, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Rocky Mountain Joine…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rocky Mountain Joinery Center LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Chester Engineered Wood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chester Engineered Wood averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Woodproducts Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Chester Engineered Wood TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Chester Engineered Wood falls in its industry

63 Woodproducts Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chester Engineered Wood (146 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chester Engineered Wood
Chester Engineered Wood (146 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Chester Engineered Wood has more employees than the Woodproducts Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2023 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2022 5.1 1.5 7 0 0
2021 8.4 7.6 3 7 0
2020 10.1 8.1 5 5 0
2019 2.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321213 · SC · Chester

63 Woodproducts Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 Rocky Mountain Joinery Center LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&R Fabrications, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UFP - Ashburn, GA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anthony Hardwood Composites, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AECON-WACHS 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walker White Inc 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE SID HARVEY INDUSTRIES - Andrews/MITCO 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0017 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Cargill Freedom 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Connection - 1015 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Builder Design Center - AZ 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bill Doran LLC - Omaha 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DJ's Electrical, Inc. 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conemaugh Generating Station 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Team Industries, Inc. 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS - Holley Inc. 146 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. 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.