Employer · South Carolina

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA

Columbia, SC · ~1,334 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA: 1.3 TCR = 38% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA safety composite

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA: 0.8 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2023

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.8 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Linde Inc. (formerly…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~1,334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA TCR series: 2020=0.8 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA falls in its industry

461 industry establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 6 industry employers in South Carolina.

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA (1,334 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA
Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA (1,334 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 1.4 0.2 22 0 0
2022 1.5 0.8 11 9 0
2020 0.8 0.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · SC · Columbia

461 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 Linde Inc. (formerly Praxair Inc.) Food Freezer Division 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooling Plant 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Controls San Antonio Chillers 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Point Plant 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0594 - Lugoff DC 1,340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Drive Automotive Industries of America 1,325 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 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 FL Int'l Univ GL Starbucks 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saks L'Avenue Restaurant 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CHICAGO, IL (container) 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C. Acitelli Heating & Piping Contractors, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE BD Medical Systems 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA20185 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caviness Beef 1,334 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARB, Inc. 1,334 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.