Softwood distillates manufacturing · South Carolina

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant

Charleston, SC · ~199 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Softwood distillates manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Softwood distillates manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant safety composite

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−0.9

2017→2024

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant injury rate improved

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.4 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.4 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325194 · Charleston, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO Savannah Manufacturing
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Savannah Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Softwood distillates manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant TCR series: 2017=1.4 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant falls in its industry

58 Softwood distillates manufactu establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant (199 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant
Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant (199 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant has more employees than the Softwood distillates manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.3 2.4 2 5 0
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2018 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.4 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325194 · SC · Charleston

58 Softwood distillates manufacturing 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 Savannah Manufacturing 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingsford Mfg 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burnside 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Oak Enterprises Birmingham LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BEC- Moncks Corner Facility 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston HQ install 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zeus Columbia 199 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 Menasha Packaging Company - Minooka 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ek Plumbing 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oleson's Food Store 606 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spindle Cooling & Warehousing, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Papa Cantella's Inc. 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadville Medical Center Grove Street 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roncelli Inc. 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE 500 Office Center Drive, Ste 100 199 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.