Public School District · South Carolina

James Island Elementary

Charleston, SC · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Island Elementary runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Public School District workplace, earning a grade D.

James Island Elementary: 2.0 TCR = 141% of Public School District BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Island Elementary safety composite

James Island Elementary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

James Island Elementary held a steady TCR band

James Island Elementary's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.0 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.0 · 141% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/129
  • PHOTO Mohegan School
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mohegan School (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Island Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Island Elementary averages 2.0 TCR (141% of the Public School District BLS benchmark).

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

James Island Elementary TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=2 · BLS 1.4

Where James Island Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Public School District establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 129 Public School District employers in South Carolina.

James Island Elementary (74 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate James Island Elementary
James Island Elementary (74 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

James Island Elementary has fewer employees than the Public School District median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · SC · Charleston

3,374 Public School District 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 Mohegan School 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynesboro High School 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Education Programs 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodcrest Elementary Spanish Immersion 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thompson Construction Group Inc GE 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Davis Construction 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spann Roofing & Sheet Metal, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston Branch 74 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 Sulphur Springs 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CBSI Springfield 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Exacta Laboratory Systems, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 16 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Baywood 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shelley'S Environmental Systems 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Manufacturing & Logistics LLC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safety Rail Company, LLC 74 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.