Forklifts manufacturing · South Carolina

KION Group Summerville

Summerville, SC · ~266 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KION Group Summerville runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Forklifts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

KION Group Summerville: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Forklifts manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KION Group Summerville safety composite

KION Group Summerville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

KION Group Summerville: 2.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

KION Group Summerville's TCR rose 0.6 from 2.0 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333924 · Summerville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Equipment Depot Penn…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Equipment Depot Pennsylvania, Inc. - Mechanicsburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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KION Group Summerville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KION Group Summerville averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Forklifts manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

KION Group Summerville TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where KION Group Summerville falls in its industry

167 Forklifts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Forklifts manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

KION Group Summerville (266 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KION Group Summerville
KION Group Summerville (266 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

KION Group Summerville has more employees than the Forklifts manufacturing 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
2024 2.6 2.3 8 0 0
2023 1.7 1.1 6 0 0
2022 2.0 0.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333924 · SC · Summerville

167 Forklifts manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 188 employers in Summerville, 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 Equipment Depot Pennsylvania, Inc. - Mechanicsburg 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Star Equipment and Manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sherman and Reilly 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIBA Technologies - Adelanto CA 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DSC3 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Columbia 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE 24X7 267 FTE
STATE-SIZE Komatsu 267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thorne research - Omni one 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scout Boats, Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summerville Medical Center 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1037 420 FTE
NAT-TCR 5099 - GA Rockdale County 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Timeplanner Calendars 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR InfraSource - PSE Major Projects / MP 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinez Sheet Metal, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE THK Rhythm Automotive 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC d/b/a Teledyne Relays 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunn Construction Company, Inc. 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Cary Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle 266 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. 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.