Polystyrene Foam Products · South Carolina

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND

Beech Island, SC · ~275 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Polystyrene Foam Products workplace, earning a grade A.

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Polystyrene Foam Products BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND safety composite

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND: 0.4 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2019

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.4 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Beech Island, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Lifoam Waxahachie
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lifoam Waxahachie (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Polystyrene Foam Products BLS benchmark).

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

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND TCR series: 2018=0.4 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND falls in its industry

260 Polystyrene Foam Products establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Polystyrene Foam Products employers in South Carolina.

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND (275 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND
Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND (275 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Food Packaging : BEECH ISLAND has more employees than the Polystyrene Foam Products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.5 1.7 6 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · SC · Beech Island

260 Polystyrene Foam Products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Beech Island, 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 Lifoam Waxahachie 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conyers, GA - 25 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Merchandising : MALVERN 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tullahoma, TN - TUL 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tyger River 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Mill - HSEMS 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE HoneywellSC09 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE 042-PL001 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beech Island Mill 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beech Island, SC 1,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAU at Kimberly-Clark Beech Island 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAU at Kimberly-Clark 512 FTE
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Meramec Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellington Drive, Conyers 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Moline Airport Rd 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tumwater TUM 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anheuser-Busch Newark Brewery 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown Family YMCA Childcare 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairgrounds YMCA 275 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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