Bar soaps manufacturing · South Carolina

Colgate-Palmolive

Hodges, SC · ~377 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colgate-Palmolive runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Colgate-Palmolive: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Bar soaps 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 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Colgate-Palmolive: 0.8 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Colgate-Palmolive's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.8 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Ecolab
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~377 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ecolab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colgate-Palmolive in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colgate-Palmolive averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Colgate-Palmolive TCR series: 2023=0.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Colgate-Palmolive falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Bar soaps manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Colgate-Palmolive (377 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive (377 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Bar soaps manufacturing 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
2024 1.2 1.0 5 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · SC · Hodges

240 Bar soaps 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Ecolab 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diversey Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosenberg 445 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemetall 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Magnolia Finishing Plant 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 511 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASCO L.P. 378 FTE
STATE-SIZE 628 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colgate Palmolive 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR HODGES SC 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hodges SC Facility 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&P Park Acquisitions, Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-TCR Abilene Home Care 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 141 Overland 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Energy Center Pittsburgh 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Romeiro's Landscaping 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lapeer County Medical Care Facility 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE McPherson Hospital, Inc 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gill Corporation 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5642 Ontario Rdc 377 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. 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.