Historical sites · South Carolina

Historic Charleston Foundation

Charleston, SC · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Historic Charleston Foundation runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Historical sites workplace, earning a grade D.

Historic Charleston Foundation: 4.4 TCR = 141% of Historical sites BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Historic Charleston Foundation safety composite

Historic Charleston Foundation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Historic Charleston Foundation: 2.3 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2021

Historic Charleston Foundation's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.3 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712120 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Patriots Point Naval…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum (0.0 TCR gap)

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Historic Charleston Foundation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Historic Charleston Foundation averages 4.4 TCR (141% of the Historical sites BLS benchmark).

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

Historic Charleston Foundation TCR series: 2019=2.3 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 3.1

Where Historic Charleston Foundation falls in its industry

23 Historical sites establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Historic Charleston Foundation (86 employees, TCR 4.4) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 14 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Historic Charleston Foundation
Historic Charleston Foundation (86 employees, TCR 4.4) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Historic Charleston Foundation has fewer employees than the Historical sites median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712120 · SC · Charleston

23 Historical sites employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Vernon Ladies' Association 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Short Term Establishments 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pickens Contracting, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paragon Sitework Constructors INC 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Post Warehouse Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GA-Kings Bay 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Enerco Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Americold Westgate, Atlanta GA 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schmid Thermal Systems, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross' Granville Market 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwc Corporate 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Old Lyme Town Hall 86 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.