General freight trucking, local · South Carolina

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia

Columbia, SC · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia: 7.7 TCR = 172% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia safety composite

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia: 1.6 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2020

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia's TCR rose 4.6 from 1.6 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #54/63
  • PHOTO 885_15709
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 885_15709 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia averages 7.7 TCR (172% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=9.6 · 2019=13.5 · 2020=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 63 General freight trucking, loca employers in South Carolina.

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia (39 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia
Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia (39 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2019 13.5 3.9 7 0 0
2018 9.6 4.8 6 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · SC · Columbia

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 885_15709 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAVANNAH (GASNA) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IRWIN (PAMPL) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIGRI - GRAND RAPIDS 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Resource Center - PNG 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid-Atlantic Insulation - South Carolina #759 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawke Trailers, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hogan Construction - Greenville 39 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 DGS Aviation Services : SGF - Springfield 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oriole Homes, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sxb 53 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR United Cerebral Palsy Association of San Diego County 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Komatsu Forklift Factory Store Stone Mountain 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE O&M Mad Dog 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Landscape Constsruction, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley Furniture Homestore- Albuquerque Store 39 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.