General freight trucking, local · South Carolina

HDS Cowpens

Cowpens, SC · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HDS Cowpens runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade F.

HDS Cowpens: 12.1 TCR = 270% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS Cowpens safety composite

HDS Cowpens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.29 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2023→2024

HDS Cowpens injury rate improved

HDS Cowpens's TCR fell 5.7 from 15.0 in 2023 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=15.0 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Cowpens, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 270% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #59/63
  • PHOTO Ward Trucking LLC-So…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ward Trucking LLC-South Plainfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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HDS Cowpens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HDS Cowpens averages 12.1 TCR (270% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HDS Cowpens TCR series: 2023=15 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS Cowpens falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 63 General freight trucking, loca employers in South Carolina.

HDS Cowpens (33 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HDS Cowpens
HDS Cowpens (33 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HDS Cowpens has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 9.3 9.3 6 0 0
2023 15.0 12.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · SC · Cowpens

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Cowpens, 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 Ward Trucking LLC-South Plainfield 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earth City DSD 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titus - Denton 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Genetics MN Logistics 64, 65, 66, 950 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BEC- Johns Island Facility 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE MYRTLE BEACH DISTRICT OFFICE 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Resource Center PNG 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hogan Construction - Greenville 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC11 DC11 COWPENS SC 1,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC11 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowpens - 600 Webber Road 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mermet 170 FTE
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 026 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Regal Shortstop Logistics 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogue Community Health - White City Clinic 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Wa 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Georgetown Metal Processing 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Top Ag Cooperative, Inc - Trenton 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Miami 10545 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woonsocket 10295 33 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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