Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics · South Carolina

Highland Industries

Cheraw, SC · ~358 workers · 7 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

Highland Industries runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics workplace, earning a grade B.

Highland Industries: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland Industries safety composite

Highland Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Highland Industries held a steady TCR band

Highland Industries's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313210 · Cheraw, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #18/29
  • PHOTO Barrday-Charlotte
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~358 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barrday-Charlotte (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland Industries averages 1.8 TCR (56% of the Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Highland Industries TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Highland Industries falls in its industry

141 Textile mills, broadwoven fabr establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 29 Textile mills, broadwoven fabr employers in South Carolina.

Highland Industries (358 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Highland Industries
Highland Industries (358 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 136 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Highland Industries has more employees than the Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics median and a lower 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 1.4 0.9 5 0 0
2023 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2022 1.7 0.3 5 0 0
2021 3.6 2.5 12 1 0
2020 1.7 1.1 6 0 0
2019 1.9 0.7 5 3 0
2018 1.5 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313210 · SC · Cheraw

141 Textile mills, broadwoven fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Cheraw, 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 Barrday-Charlotte 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safety Components 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Strap Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saati Americas Corporation 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BASF Metals LLC 358 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contec, INC. - Locust Grove 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1358 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 574 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Plant 1 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheraw II 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Cheraw 2 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Health-Cheraw MH110 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Orem City Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hjq Ag Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Woodmark Coorporation, Kingman AZ Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR First Article Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cargo Handling Airport Services, LLC 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE C059 Charlotte (209, 509) 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus OH FXFE-CMH 358 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynetics Technical Solutions 358 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.