Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing · South Carolina

Guardian Industries

Richburg, SC · ~243 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guardian Industries runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Guardian Industries: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Industries safety composite

Guardian Industries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.9

2023→2024

Guardian Industries injury rate improved

Guardian Industries's TCR fell 2.9 from 3.2 in 2023 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327211 · Richburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK P83
  • PHOTO Custom Glass Product…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Glass Products of Carolina Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guardian Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guardian Industries averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Guardian Industries TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Industries falls in its industry

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Guardian Industries (243 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Guardian Industries
Guardian Industries (243 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Guardian Industries has more employees than the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2023 3.2 1.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327211 · SC · Richburg

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Custom Glass Products of Carolina Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSG - Pilkington Rossford 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'keeffe's Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartung Glass Industries - Phoenix 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Transaxle Manufacturing Of America 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Beverages Charleston 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE 642 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-07111045-1045 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guardian Glass Richburg 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR ATI Specialty Materials - Richburg 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Natural Foods Inc - Richburg, SC 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Fiber LLC 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Wahl Clipper Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central College 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elixson Wood Products, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Notre Dame de Namur University 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Energy Group Inc. 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ziolkowski Construction, Inc. 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schindler Hanover Elevator Plant 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE 55367 Marta 243 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.