Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · South Carolina

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company)

Moncks Corner, SC · ~280 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company): 1.1 TCR = 33% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) safety composite

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) held a steady TCR band

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.0 in 2017 to 1.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.0 · 2018=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Moncks Corner, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/47
  • PHOTO Smith & Wesson Preci…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smith & Wesson Precision Components Plastics, (0.0 TCR gap)

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DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) averages 1.1 TCR (33% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 47 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in South Carolina.

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) (280 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company)
DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) (280 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

DAK Americas LLC (An Alpek Polyester Company) has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 1.1 0.8 3 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · SC · Moncks Corner

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Moncks Corner, 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 Smith & Wesson Precision Components Plastics, 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodservice : MASSASOIT 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Controls PS - Oconee Facility West Union SC- 00023 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AN Richmond 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3222 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake City Community Hospital 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCYAP 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vulcraft-SC 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley County Government 1,122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moncks Corner Offuce 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1146 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1146 398 FTE
NAT-TCR DTRTMIBHDS0 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nalco Water - PreTreatment Solutions East Operations 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IO - Lexington 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR EMERSON 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koppel 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ceres Center (Cacee) 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville NAS 1 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio 280 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: 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.