Flange units, ball or roller bearing, manufacturing · South Carolina

Koyo Richland Plant

Blythewood, SC · ~458 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koyo Richland Plant runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flange units, ball or roller bearing, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Koyo Richland Plant: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Flange units, ball or roller bearing, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koyo Richland Plant safety composite

Koyo Richland Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2017→2021

Koyo Richland Plant injury rate improved

Koyo Richland Plant's TCR fell 4.2 from 4.7 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Blythewood, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Heim Bearings
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~458 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heim Bearings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koyo Richland Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koyo Richland Plant averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Flange units, ball or roller bearing, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Koyo Richland Plant TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Koyo Richland Plant falls in its industry

125 Flange units, ball or roller b establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Flange units, ball or roller b employers in South Carolina.

Koyo Richland Plant (458 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Koyo Richland Plant
Koyo Richland Plant (458 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Koyo Richland Plant has more employees than the Flange units, ball or roller bearing, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2019 1.1 0.0 0 5 0
2018 5.6 0.6 18 12 0
2017 4.7 0.9 14 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · SC · Blythewood

125 Flange units, ball or roller bearing, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 36 employers in Blythewood, 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 Heim Bearings 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Philadelphia 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CoorsTek, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK-AKS Corporation 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmetto Bluff Investments 457 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harsco Rail Columbia 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE BoomTown ROI 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC264 Darlington (Dixie) 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR JTEKT North America 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR C425 Columbia 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Carolina Physician Practices 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GHSP Hart 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Douville-Johnston Corporation 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ship Central Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vantage Aging 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Walbridge 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iola 458 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-9970-CORPORATE 458 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, 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.