Motor vehicle metal parts stamping · South Carolina

Drive Automotive Industries of America

Piedmont, SC · ~1,325 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Drive Automotive Industries of America runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Motor vehicle metal parts stamping workplace, earning a grade C.

Drive Automotive Industries of America: 4.4 TCR = 81% of Motor vehicle metal parts stamping BLS 5.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Drive Automotive Industries of America safety composite

Drive Automotive Industries of America scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2016→2024

Drive Automotive Industries of America injury rate improved

Drive Automotive Industries of America's TCR fell 5.3 from 7.1 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Piedmont, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Gastonia Components …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 500 inj
  • SIZE ~1,325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gastonia Components and Logistics - Fairview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Drive Automotive Industries of America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Drive Automotive Industries of America averages 4.4 TCR (81% of the Motor vehicle metal parts stamping BLS benchmark).

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

Drive Automotive Industries of America TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Drive Automotive Industries of America falls in its industry

510 Motor vehicle metal parts stam establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Motor vehicle metal parts stam employers in South Carolina.

Drive Automotive Industries of America (1,325 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Drive Automotive Industries of America
Drive Automotive Industries of America (1,325 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Drive Automotive Industries of America has more employees than the Motor vehicle metal parts stamping median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 1.8 1.1 40 0 0
2023 3.8 2.4 62 1 1
2022 3.2 1.5 60 1 0
2021 3.5 2.0 62 4 0
2020 4.0 2.6 46 4 0
2019 5.4 3.7 74 8 0
2018 6.3 3.8 82 3 0
2016 7.1 4.7 74 38 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · SC · Piedmont

510 Motor vehicle metal parts stamping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Piedmont, 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 Gastonia Components and Logistics - Fairview 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Engraving Corporation - West Salem 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modineer Plant 6 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Variety Die & Stamping Co. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lander University 1,317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA 1,334 FTE
STATE-SIZE AdP 1,314 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0594 - Lugoff DC 1,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Blood Connection 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR PL Developments - OGR Plant 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR C453 Greenville 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenville Sequencing Center 366 FTE
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Jacksonville East 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S09564 - WM Recycling Palm Beach 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Janus of Santa Cruz 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bainbridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Direct Supply, Inc. 1,325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Human Services, Central Office, Andersen 1,325 FTE
NAT-SIZE ULA-Denver 1,324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairbanks Memorial Hospital 1,324 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.