City and town managers' offices · South Carolina

City of Charleston

Charleston, SC · ~1,715 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Charleston runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Charleston: 7.4 TCR = 230% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Charleston safety composite

City of Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

City of Charleston: 5.2 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

City of Charleston's TCR rose 3.0 from 5.2 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 230% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #23/46
  • PHOTO Town of Lexington
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 299 inj
  • SIZE ~1,715 FTE

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

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City of Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Charleston averages 7.4 TCR (230% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Charleston TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2022=8.6 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Charleston falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 46 City and town managers' office employers in South Carolina.

City of Charleston (1,715 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Charleston
City of Charleston (1,715 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Charleston has more employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.3 6.7 115 10 0
2022 8.6 7.6 95 65 0
2017 5.2 3.4 89 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · SC · Charleston

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 Lexington 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Charleston 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipal Government 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of LeRoy 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC 1,709 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michelin North America, Inc. - Corporate Site 1,709 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercedes-Benz Vans 1,722 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volvo Car US Operations/Ridgeville, SC 1,698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Hope Growout 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill North Canton Store 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS028 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Jewish Health 1,715 FTE
NAT-SIZE ND,BISMARCK - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 1,715 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Heights Complex 1,716 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Jobsites 1,716 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, 2022, 2017. 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.