Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing · South Carolina

Gaffney Plant

Gaffney, SC · ~137 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaffney Plant runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Gaffney Plant: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaffney Plant safety composite

Gaffney Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Gaffney Plant: 0.7 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Gaffney Plant's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Gaffney, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/47
  • PHOTO Rohrer Corporation -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rohrer Corporation - Bensenville Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaffney Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaffney Plant averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gaffney Plant TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Gaffney Plant falls in its industry

2,838 Building materials (e.g., fasc establishments

Safer than 91% 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 #3 safest of 47 Building materials (e.g., fasc employers in South Carolina.

Gaffney Plant (137 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaffney Plant
Gaffney Plant (137 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gaffney Plant has more employees than the Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels 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
2017 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · SC · Gaffney

2,838 Building materials (e.g., fascia, panels, siding, soffit), plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Gaffney, 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 Rohrer Corporation - Bensenville Facility 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&W Fine Pack 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valparaiso Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amcor Healthcare Packaging 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE H&W Electrical Corporation 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlisle Finishing 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belton - 905 Highway 247 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE KPR US LLC 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods 1,103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA, Inc. 1,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCCC-- Main 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaffney 426 FTE
NAT-TCR North District Houston ENB3 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas/Coppell (Txcpp) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nestle Dreyer's Ice Cream 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Corrosion Services, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amec Foster Wheeler North America Corp 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Lebanon North LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE 280 Sandston PC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lone StarPaving Company - San Antonio 137 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: 2017, 2016. 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.