Electric contracting · South Carolina

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc.

Charleston, SC · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electric contracting workplace, earning a grade C.

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 91% of Electric contracting BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. safety composite

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc.: 1.6 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2019

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.5 from 1.6 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Charleston, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #28/47
  • PHOTO Sauk Rapids, MN (All…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sauk Rapids, MN (All State) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (91% of the Electric contracting BLS benchmark).

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

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electric contracting establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 47 Electric contracting employers in South Carolina.

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc.
Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. has fewer employees than the Electric contracting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · SC · Charleston

4,550 Electric contracting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 Sauk Rapids, MN (All State) 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 48130011-FREEMAN EXPO CHICAGO CHICAGO 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LiveWire Electrical Systems, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Staley Electric 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE G. Campbell Construction Co Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE AOS Specialty Contractors, Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Valley Charleston 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMD Electronics 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Urologic Surgery of ME 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown Lakeside 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast ASM 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE VVS, Inc - Lincoln Warehouse 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Ridge Fire Department 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Riverside Public Works Street Maintenance 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersons Albion Ethanol 53 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, 2017. 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.