Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing · South Carolina

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc.

Elloree, SC · ~46 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc.: 7.6 TCR = 230% of Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. safety composite

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−7.8

2020→2024

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. injury rate improved

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc.'s TCR fell 7.8 from 12.4 in 2020 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.4 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312112 · Elloree, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 230% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Culligan of Ann Arbo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Culligan of Ann Arbor Detroit (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. averages 7.6 TCR (230% of the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. TCR series: 2020=12.4 · 2022=8 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. falls in its industry

192 Beverages, naturally carbonate establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. (46 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Springs Bottling Inc.
Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. (46 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Hickory Springs Bottling Inc. has fewer employees than the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2023 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2022 8.0 6.0 4 0 0
2020 12.4 3.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312112 · SC · Elloree

192 Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 10 employers in Elloree, 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 Culligan of Ann Arbor Detroit 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 03325100-00W001 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Bottling, LLC - Kansas City 2 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Berlin, Wisconsin 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thompson Construction Group Inc Caterpillar Pin 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Brothers, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horizon LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regional Utility Services 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADUSA Dist DC 30 Elloree SC 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR 71301 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR 69930 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR 30205 CAPSTONE - ADUSA DC30 ELLOREE SC 64 FTE
NAT-TCR The Quad Cities Rehabilitation Institute 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jenkins Landscape Company 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Glass Company, Inc. dba C&C Glass 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Patterson Custom Homes 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Belltown Dairy 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 293010-Tewksbury | MA | 293010 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 293007-Dennis-Yarmouth | MA | 293007 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Plastics South 46 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, 2022, 2020. 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.