General automotive repair shops · South Carolina

First Vehicle Richland Division

Columbia, SC · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Vehicle Richland Division runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General automotive repair shops workplace, earning a grade C.

First Vehicle Richland Division: 2.5 TCR = 118% of General automotive repair shops BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Vehicle Richland Division safety composite

First Vehicle Richland Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2018→2019

First Vehicle Richland Division injury rate improved

First Vehicle Richland Division's TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811111 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Brown Fleet Services…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brown Fleet Services Lithonia, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Vehicle Richland Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Vehicle Richland Division averages 2.5 TCR (118% of the General automotive repair shops BLS benchmark).

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

First Vehicle Richland Division TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.1

Where First Vehicle Richland Division falls in its industry

609 General automotive repair shop establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 General automotive repair shop employers in South Carolina.

First Vehicle Richland Division (22 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Vehicle Richland Division
First Vehicle Richland Division (22 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2

First Vehicle Richland Division has fewer employees than the General automotive repair shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811111 · SC · Columbia

609 General automotive repair 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 Brown Fleet Services Lithonia, GA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VALLEY FLEET - 1502 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gordo Shop 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polar Service Center - Commerce City 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ISE Newberry Liquid Plant 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summerville SC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allendale Biomass LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Business Office 22 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 Winoa USA Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa Transitional 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Covanta Marion, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 58-Buffalo Terminal 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE BBSI Lake Oswego 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storm Creek HQ 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayfield - Braselton - McDonough 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deppe Mold & Tooling, Inc. 22 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.