Forklifts manufacturing · South Carolina

KION Group Tradeport

Summerville, SC · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KION Group Tradeport runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Forklifts manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

KION Group Tradeport: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Forklifts manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KION Group Tradeport safety composite

KION Group Tradeport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2024

KION Group Tradeport injury rate improved

KION Group Tradeport's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO PACCAR Parts
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PACCAR Parts (0.0 TCR gap)

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KION Group Tradeport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KION Group Tradeport averages 0.3 TCR (10% 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 Tradeport TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where KION Group Tradeport falls in its industry

167 Forklifts manufacturing establishments

Safer than 98% 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 #1 safest of 5 Forklifts manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

KION Group Tradeport (36 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 Tradeport
KION Group Tradeport (36 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

KION Group Tradeport has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.0 0.0 1 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 PACCAR Parts 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR viastore Systems, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equipment Depot Kentucky, Inc. - Louisville 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seegrid 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Logging 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Logging Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE JASPER GENERATING STATION 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLEET RADIO 36 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 Corbin Health and Rehabilitation Center 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Auto Group 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US MD Annapolis Junction 410 N (5002) 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Camanche Trucking Terminal 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bloomington Plant 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Chutes 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noah Project, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookstone Haven of Randleman 36 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.