Machine shops · South Carolina

Ferrous and Lead Star

Columbia, SC · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrous and Lead Star runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Ferrous and Lead Star: 7.1 TCR = 216% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrous and Lead Star safety composite

Ferrous and Lead Star scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Ferrous and Lead Star held a steady TCR band

Ferrous and Lead Star's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.0 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 216% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Selflock Screw Produ…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Selflock Screw Products Co., INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrous and Lead Star in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrous and Lead Star averages 7.1 TCR (216% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrous and Lead Star TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ferrous and Lead Star falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #14 safest of 14 Machine shops employers in South Carolina.

Ferrous and Lead Star (51 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ferrous and Lead Star
Ferrous and Lead Star (51 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ferrous and Lead Star has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher 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
2021 5.8 4.3 4 0 0
2020 9.6 9.6 2 3 0
2019 6.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · SC · Columbia

1,821 Machine shops 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 Selflock Screw Products Co., INC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Tool & Precision Machining, LLC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Diesel Truck Shop 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dura-Metal Products Corporation 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minto - Hilton Head Construction, Land and Mastercare 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE MYR 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small Capital Projects 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Fitts Company, Inc. 51 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 Nature Trail Health Care Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S&S Steel Fabrication 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Residential Casegoods 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronnie DeMeo Construction Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pampa Nursing Center 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feld Entertainment - SSL1 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE BLK Electric Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Nursing Pavilion 51 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.