Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Hills Machinery Columbia SC

Columbia, SC · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Machinery Columbia SC runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Hills Machinery Columbia SC: 2.1 TCR = 97% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Machinery Columbia SC safety composite

Hills Machinery Columbia SC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−4.3

2023→2024

Hills Machinery Columbia SC injury rate improved

Hills Machinery Columbia SC's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 97% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Ohio CAT - Cincinnat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio CAT - Cincinnati PSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Machinery Columbia SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Machinery Columbia SC averages 2.1 TCR (97% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hills Machinery Columbia SC TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Hills Machinery Columbia SC falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hills Machinery Columbia SC (36 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hills Machinery Columbia SC
Hills Machinery Columbia SC (36 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hills Machinery Columbia SC has fewer employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · SC · Columbia

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 Ohio CAT - Cincinnati PSD 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland C&F 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00 Milford EM 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTCO Chico 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Logging 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Logging Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE JASPER GENERATING STATION 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLEET RADIO 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Aiken Elementary School 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0692 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Concord 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bond Optics, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden State Bobcat, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas ProFab Corporation 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Human Technologies Syracuse 36 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.