Azo dyes manufacturing · South Carolina

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site

Goose Creek, SC · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Azo dyes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Azo dyes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site safety composite

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site held a steady TCR band

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.6 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Goose Creek, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Sensient Colors, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensient Colors, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Azo dyes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site falls in its industry

75 Azo dyes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Azo dyes manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site (61 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site
Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site (61 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kemira Chemicals Inc. Bushy Park Plant Site has fewer employees than the Azo dyes manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · SC · Goose Creek

75 Azo dyes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 85 employers in Goose Creek, 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 Sensient Colors, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venator Augusta 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Colors & Effects - Peekskill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Colors & Effects - N Charleston 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CLOVER SC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prysmian Cables and Systems USA, LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 861-SC-Midlands 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Hipp Construction Inc. 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR APS-3 KBR 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR APS-3 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR W. International SC, LLC 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2928 473 FTE
NAT-TCR KIK So Cal Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RB Hinkle Construction, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas APG 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alside Supply Center #147 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NDX nSequence 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 160 East Sunrise Hwy 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE John C. Fremont Middle School 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-SW-20730060-CS 61 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. 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.