Local telephone carriers, wired · South Carolina

FTC Sumter Operations

Sumter, SC · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FTC Sumter Operations runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Local telephone carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade D.

FTC Sumter Operations: 0.9 TCR = 134% of Local telephone carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FTC Sumter Operations safety composite

FTC Sumter Operations scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2023→2024

FTC Sumter Operations injury rate improved

FTC Sumter Operations's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517111 · Sumter, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 0.9 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO WI_Milwaukee_1320 N …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WI_Milwaukee_1320 N M.L. King, Jr._47000100 (0.0 TCR gap)

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FTC Sumter Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FTC Sumter Operations averages 0.9 TCR (134% of the Local telephone carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

FTC Sumter Operations TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.7

Where FTC Sumter Operations falls in its industry

455 Local telephone carriers, wire establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

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 7 Local telephone carriers, wire employers in South Carolina.

FTC Sumter Operations (52 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate FTC Sumter Operations
FTC Sumter Operations (52 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0

FTC Sumter Operations has fewer employees than the Local telephone carriers, wired median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517111 · SC · Sumter

455 Local telephone carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 130 employers in Sumter, 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 WI_Milwaukee_1320 N M.L. King, Jr._47000100 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL_Tampa_3611 Queen Palm Dr_41301001 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD - Upper Marlboro, 8210 Penn Randall PL Suite C 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florence Transmission Substation Complex 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarter's Office 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broad River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEC- Goose Creek Facility 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thompson Construction Group 2,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Tuomey 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumter Utilities, Inc. 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Birmingham 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Otis Service Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton Residence 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 66-Usf-Olf Chesapeake Square 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boston 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tlc Family Care-Az 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tranquility at Fredericktowne 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Wilson Constructors 52 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. 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.