Machine shops · South Carolina

Ferrous

West Columbia, SC · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ferrous runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Ferrous: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ferrous safety composite

Ferrous scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ferrous: 2.4 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

Ferrous's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.4 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Hi-Tek Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ferrous in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ferrous averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Ferrous TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ferrous falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #10 safest of 14 Machine shops employers in South Carolina.

Ferrous (91 employees, TCR 3.1) 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
Ferrous (91 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ferrous has more employees than the Machine shops 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
2024 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · SC · West Columbia

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West 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 Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CassMac LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baskins Machined Products 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moss Precision 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kiawah Development Partners 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldrop Home Services, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darlington 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patheon API Manufacturing, Inc. 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Terrace of Delray Beach 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR B50 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Snider Fleet Solutions - Arlington 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR doTERRA Fulfillment Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Environmental Services 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foods Etc. 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mauser Packaging Solutions Mason Ohio 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1925 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Texas 75234 91 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. 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.