City and town managers' offices · South Carolina

City of Darlington

Darlington, SC · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Darlington runs at 335% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Darlington: 10.7 TCR = 335% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Darlington safety composite

City of Darlington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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 Darlington: 3.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2019

City of Darlington's TCR rose 9.8 from 3.0 in 2016 to 12.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Darlington, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 335% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #37/46
  • PHOTO Village of Bolingbrook
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Bolingbrook (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Darlington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Darlington averages 10.7 TCR (335% 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 Darlington TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=14.2 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=12.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Darlington falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #37 safest of 46 City and town managers' office employers in South Carolina.

City of Darlington (82 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Darlington
City of Darlington (82 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Darlington has fewer 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
2019 12.8 4.7 11 0 0
2018 12.9 3.7 13 1 0
2017 14.2 2.0 13 1 0
2016 3.0 1.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · SC · Darlington

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Darlington, 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 Village of Bolingbrook 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The United States of America 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Romulus 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR COH Police Department 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE NNOB VCSN UNITS 1 2 3 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Clad, Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE IG Design Group Americas, Inc. - Leesville, SC 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morcon Tissue - SC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) 480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darlington County 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC264 Darlington (Dixie) 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7188 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dla3 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR IN 1600 W Fountain Drive 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mi 11921 E. M89 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elderwood of Scallop Shell at Wakefield 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Hook Service Company Inc 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE KKSP Precision Machining Glendale Heights 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper St. Louis Container 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMT Lines - DAL 82 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.