Rugs merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

FT4 - Chester

Fort Mill, SC · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FT4 - Chester runs at 779% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rugs merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

FT4 - Chester: 17.1 TCR = 779% of Rugs merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FT4 - Chester safety composite

FT4 - Chester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

FT4 - Chester: 16.4 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2022

FT4 - Chester's TCR rose 1.5 from 16.4 in 2021 to 17.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423220 · Fort Mill, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 779% of ind

  • DART 15.3 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO G. A. Gertmenia & Sons
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G. A. Gertmenia & Sons (1.6 TCR gap)

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FT4 - Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FT4 - Chester averages 17.1 TCR (779% of the Rugs merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

FT4 - Chester TCR series: 2021=16.4 · 2022=17.9 · BLS 2.2

Where FT4 - Chester falls in its industry

146 Rugs merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Rugs merchant wholesalers employers in South Carolina.

FT4 - Chester (73 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FT4 - Chester
FT4 - Chester (73 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8

FT4 - Chester has more employees than the Rugs merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2022 17.9 15.3 7 0 0
2021 16.4 13.1 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423220 · SC · Fort Mill

146 Rugs merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 121 employers in Fort Mill, 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 G. A. Gertmenia & Sons 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baltimore 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FT1 -Fort Mill 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaSalle Bristol AMS 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black River Electric Cooperative 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caraustar Industries, Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Diamond Industries Clinton 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Thermoforming - CN3 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR South East Distribution Center SEDC 1,467 FTE
CITY-NEAR South East Distribution Center - SEDC 1,078 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shutterfly Fort Mill 841 FTE
CITY-NEAR US FOODS FORT MILL 719 FTE
NAT-TCR West Ridge Specialty Care 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Virginia Beach 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 150 Rocklin 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crossgate 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ONSITE - Illinois 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE cfm Distributors 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE 403OFL 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augusta Fuel Company 73 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: 2022, 2021. 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.