Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants · South Carolina

Guardian Glass Richburg

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Richburg, SC · ~285 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Guardian Glass Richburg runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Guardian Glass Richburg: 1.7 TCR = 53% of Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Glass Richburg safety composite

Guardian Glass Richburg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Guardian Glass Richburg: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.84× in 2021

Guardian Glass Richburg's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327212 · Richburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

DART 3.2 DART
RANK #3/6
PHOTO MW/MB, LLC
BOOK 4y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~285 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MW/MB, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Guardian Glass Richburg averages 1.7 TCR (53% of the Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants BLS benchmark).

Guardian Glass Richburg TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Glass Richburg falls in its industry

75 Industrial glassware and glass establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade B

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 6 Industrial glassware and glass employers in South Carolina.

Guardian Glass Richburg (285 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Guardian Glass Richburg has more employees than the Industrial glassware and glass 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
2021	4.3	3.2	12
2020	0.9	0.6	3
2019	1.8	1.5	6
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327212 · SC · Richburg

75 Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Richburg, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	MW/MB, LLC	CLARKSVILLE, TN	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SCHOTT North America AO-OD	DURYEA, PA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Waterville 1	WATERVILLE, OH	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Momentive Technologies - Willoughby	WILLOUGHBY, OH	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dak Americas Cooper River Site	MONCKS CORNER	285 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hengst of NA	CAMDEN	285 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 625	GEORGETOWN	285 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CMOP SC Ladson	LADSON	285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ATI Specialty Materials - Richburg	Richburg	277 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Guardian Industries	Richburg	243 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Natural Foods Inc - Richburg, SC	Richburg	208 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sun Fiber LLC	Richburg	167 FTE
NAT-TCR	Samuel Ortiz .	Los Angeles, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aam - Fwmf	Fort Wayne, IN	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Major Projects_Potelco	Mukilteo, WA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Austintown	Austintown, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ZF-Lebanon	Lebanon, TN	285 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Magna Mirrors 128N	Holland, MI	285 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CDS	Oxnard, CA	285 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WOC	Arlington, TN	285 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.