Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors · South Carolina

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant

Laurens, SC · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant safety composite

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3.02× in 2019

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 3.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315210 · Laurens, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P96
  • PHOTO Avalon Apparel LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avalon Apparel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant falls in its industry

72 Caps and gowns, academic, cut establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant (40 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant
Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant (40 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant has fewer employees than the Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew ap 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
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315210 · SC · Laurens

72 Caps and gowns, academic, cut and sew apparel contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 34 employers in Laurens, 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 Avalon Apparel LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technical Sewing LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR P.T.M. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Globe Manufacturing Company, LLC OK 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Thinning Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Region Complex (Florence) 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEC Main Location 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sands Building Group 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6014 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6014 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurens County Government 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1130 289 FTE
NAT-TCR Olympus Kennewick 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Panther Ironworks Rigging Solutions LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fireservice Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirk Key Interlock Company LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sb Machining Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Build It Green 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesis Transporation Co., Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturer of Precision Machined Components to Customer Specification 40 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: 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.