Employer · South Carolina

Columbia, SC HVAC

Columbia, SC · ~55 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia, SC HVAC runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Columbia, SC HVAC: 0.6 TCR = 21% of industry BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia, SC HVAC safety composite

Columbia, SC HVAC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Columbia, SC HVAC: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3.07× in 2021

Columbia, SC HVAC's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/54
  • PHOTO 129010 - Aero Job Co…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 129010 - Aero Job Cost Arizona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia, SC HVAC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia, SC HVAC averages 0.6 TCR (21% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia, SC HVAC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Columbia, SC HVAC falls in its industry

5,793 industry establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 54 industry employers in South Carolina.

Columbia, SC HVAC (55 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia, SC HVAC
Columbia, SC HVAC (55 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Columbia, SC HVAC has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · SC · Columbia

5,793 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 129010 - Aero Job Cost Arizona 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mallick Mechanical Contractors Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Mechanical 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BT Chicago 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JRD Growers 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Startex-Jackson-Wellford-Duncan Water District 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE JMCOPEINC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Axiom Foundations 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR US188: Houston 430 - SG 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Francisco, CA HVAC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amphenol Fiber Systems International 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR O.C.Tanner Company 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oak Grove Health Care Center 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impact Fulfillment Services - ADC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cutting Edge Steel, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ball Metalpack - Springdale, AR 55 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, 2020, 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.