Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · South Carolina

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5

Summerville, SC · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade C.

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 safety composite

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 held a steady TCR band

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Summerville, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/24
  • PHOTO Kansas Ready Mix
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas Ready Mix (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 24 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in South Carolina.

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5
Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 has more employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · SC · Summerville

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing 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 Kansas Ready Mix 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maryland Portable Concrete Elkton Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merrill - CRM 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ready Mixed Concrete Company 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BEAUFORT DISTRICT OFFICE 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmetto Sitework Services, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE HUNTER SPECIALTIES, INC. 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carolina Pole, Inc. 48 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 Fortis Solutions Group (Merced 1870) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Roofing SPD 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 42131b - Bangor Bin 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 49221b - North Bay Zone 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 235 Buffalo Road 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42141b - Chicopee 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43341u - Kc North Riverside 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Dyestuffs, Inc. 48 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.