Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · South Carolina

Colgate Palmolive

Name: Colgate Palmolive Workplace Safety Data
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Hodges, SC · ~366 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Colgate Palmolive runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Colgate Palmolive: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colgate Palmolive safety composite

Colgate Palmolive scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

Colgate Palmolive held a steady TCR band

Colgate Palmolive's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.1 in 2019 to 1.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.1 · 2021=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Hodges, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Fruit Of The Earth
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~366 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fruit Of The Earth (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.2
Fruit Of The E

1.2
Henkel US Oper

1.2
State Chemical

1.1
Crescent Manuf

1.1

What this shows Colgate Palmolive averages 1.2 TCR (35% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Colgate Palmolive TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2021=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Colgate Palmolive falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in South Carolina.

Colgate Palmolive (366 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Colgate Palmolive has more employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021	1.2	0.2	5	0	0
2019	1.1	0.4	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · SC · Hodges

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 11 employers in Hodges, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fruit Of The Earth	GRAND PRAIRIE, TX	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Henkel US Operations Corporation - West Hazleton Plant	WEST HAZLETON, PA	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	State Chemical	MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, OH	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crescent Manufacturing	NORTH COLLINS, NY	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Greenville Sequencing Center	PIEDMONT	366 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1183	WEST COLUMBIA	366 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rivers Plumbing & Electric, Inc.	FLORENCE	367 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prestage Foods of SC LLC	CAMDEN	367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colgate-Palmolive	Hodges	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HODGES SC	Hodges	256 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hodges SC Facility	Hodges	218 FTE
CITY-NEAR	J&P Park Acquisitions, Inc.	Hodges	115 FTE
NAT-TCR	PIDC Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vantage Aging	Akron, OH	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Norwood Company	Malvern, PA	1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dot Transportation- CA	Modesto, CA	1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	6458-ZOTA	San Diego, CA	366 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0648 - Maple Grove Mn Whse	Maple Grove, MN	366 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0407 - Tucson Az Whse	Tucson, AZ	366 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CCSF, ADM, City Administrator	San Francisco, CA	366 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: 2021, 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.