Landfills · South Carolina

Horry County SWA

Conway, SC · ~124 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Horry County SWA runs at 589% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Horry County SWA: 15.3 TCR = 589% of Landfills BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horry County SWA safety composite

Horry County SWA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−9.9

2017→2020

Horry County SWA injury rate improved

Horry County SWA's TCR fell 9.9 from 23.7 in 2017 to 13.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.7 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=13.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Conway, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 589% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO OCWR Frank R. Bowerm…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill (0.1 TCR gap)

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Horry County SWA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Horry County SWA averages 15.3 TCR (589% of the Landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Horry County SWA TCR series: 2017=23.7 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=13.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Horry County SWA falls in its industry

288 Landfills establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Landfills employers in South Carolina.

Horry County SWA (124 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Horry County SWA
Horry County SWA (124 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Horry County SWA has more employees than the Landfills 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
2020 13.8 5.9 12 2 0
2019 10.7 4.8 10 1 0
2018 13.1 7.5 14 0 0
2017 23.7 14.2 24 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · SC · Conway

288 Landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 107 employers in Conway, 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 OCWR Frank R. Bowerman Landfill 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landfill Technologies, Vertedero de Fajardo 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 2000 Services Authority 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Maui Central Maui Landfill 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clemson Elementary School 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Textile Carolina, Inc. 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lamar 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Sequencing Center 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horry County Government 2,603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Carolina University 2,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conway Medical Center 1,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Corp of Conway 662 FTE
NAT-TCR Hinckley Ofc/Whse 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Cleveland Clinic 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Board of Child Care- WV Campolina Way 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Terrace Court Senior Living dba Mountain Terrace Senior Living 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glendale Chrysler Jeep Dodge 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orrex Plant 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Park Strathmoor 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABQ Airport - 341 124 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.