Phthalate acid manufacturing · South Carolina

Cooper River Plant

Wando, SC · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooper River Plant runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Phthalate acid manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cooper River Plant: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Phthalate acid manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooper River Plant safety composite

Cooper River Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Cooper River Plant held a steady TCR band

Cooper River Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.5 in 2020 to 0.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.5 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Wando, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/21
  • PHOTO ChampionX - Odessa F…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ChampionX - Odessa Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooper River Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooper River Plant averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Phthalate acid manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooper River Plant TCR series: 2020=0.5 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooper River Plant falls in its industry

552 Phthalate acid manufacturing establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 21 Phthalate acid manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Cooper River Plant (200 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooper River Plant
Cooper River Plant (200 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Cooper River Plant has more employees than the Phthalate acid manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · SC · Wando

552 Phthalate acid manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 8 employers in Wando, 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 ChampionX - Odessa Facility 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Dow Chemical Compnany - Bayport, TX 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Methanex USA, LLC 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilliland Plant 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Particle Board 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Company Allen Plant 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlstar-Aiken 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR BP Cooper River Plant 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR INEOS US Chemicals Company, Cooper River Plant 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cape Romain Contractors 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHS/CSS-ODFL 75 FTE
NAT-TCR RHA Medina 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RMA West Unity 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pipeline Systems Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraton Chemical LLC, Dover Site 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Converters 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sequel Electrical Supply LLC 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller Zell Inc. 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holmberg Mechanical 200 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. 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.