Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

G&W Equipment Charleston

Name: G&W Equipment Charleston Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ladson, SC · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 4.6
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

G&W Equipment Charleston runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

G&W Equipment Charleston: 4.6 TCR = 208% of Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

G&W Equipment Charleston safety composite

G&W Equipment Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

G&W Equipment Charleston: 0.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

G&W Equipment Charleston's TCR rose 9.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Ladson, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 208% of ind

DART 4.6 DART
RANK #13/15
PHOTO OEC Petroleum Systems
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OEC Petroleum Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.6
OEC Petroleum

4.6
Productivity -

4.6
Houston Branch

4.6
AM Industrial

4.6

What this shows G&W Equipment Charleston averages 4.6 TCR (208% of the Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

G&W Equipment Charleston TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.1 · BLS 2.2

Where G&W Equipment Charleston falls in its industry

911 Industrial machinery and equip establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Industrial machinery and equip employers in South Carolina.

G&W Equipment Charleston (20 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

G&W Equipment Charleston has fewer employees than the Industrial machinery and equipment (exce 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
2020	9.1	4.6	2	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · SC · Ladson

911 Industrial machinery and equipment (except electrical) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ladson, 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	OEC Petroleum Systems	SPARTANBURG, SC	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Productivity - IA	CEDAR RAPIDS, IA	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Houston Branch - Kaeser Compressors, Inc.	HOUSTON, TX	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AM Industrial Group	BROOK PARK, OH	4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Log Creek Timber Company Inc.	JOHNSTON	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dorchestor	HARLEYVILLE	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dorchester Biomass LLC	HARLEYVILLE	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FIELD SERVICES TECH BUILDING	CAYCE	20 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercedes-Benz Vans	Ladson	1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC	Ladson	1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Holset Palmetto Plant	Ladson	800 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cummins Turbo Technologies	Ladson	633 FTE
NAT-TCR	Crystal Geyser Water Company	Bakersfield, CA	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	11 Detention Facility	Fergus Falls, MN	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	LaPorte Physician Network	Laporte, IN	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Country Oaks Elementary School	Commerce Twp, MI	4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	JIT Packaging, Inc.	New Hudson, MI	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wall Systems	Naples, FL	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Crescent Park Corporation - C8	Cincinnati, OH	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Joe Wilde Company, LLC	New Berlin, WI	20 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: 2020, 2019. 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.