Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · South Carolina

Love Automotive Group

Cayce, SC · ~169 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Love Automotive Group runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Love Automotive Group: 4.8 TCR = 140% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Love Automotive Group safety composite

Love Automotive Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Love Automotive Group: 3.5 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2020

Love Automotive Group's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.5 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Cayce, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #36/46
  • PHOTO CIT Trucks - Troy
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CIT Trucks - Troy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Love Automotive Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Love Automotive Group averages 4.8 TCR (140% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Love Automotive Group TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=5 · BLS 3.4

Where Love Automotive Group falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 46 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in South Carolina.

Love Automotive Group (169 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Love Automotive Group
Love Automotive Group (169 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Love Automotive Group has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 5.0 1.0 5 0 0
2019 5.8 0.6 10 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · SC · Cayce

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 46 employers in Cayce, 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 CIT Trucks - Troy 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lochmandy Motor Sales, INC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RUSS DARROW WEST BEND LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imported Cars Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masonite International 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 240 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0472 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCANA Energy Marketing, LLC Aiken 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR HISTORIC COLUMBIA SPEEDWAY 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Headquarters 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR CMC Steel South Carolina 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR OPERATIONS SUPPORT CENTER 293 FTE
NAT-TCR Clearview Homes 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR All Aboard America! Mesa 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shields for Families - Genesis/Eden 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fruit Packing #4 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Noblesville 02 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of South Las Vegas 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Susquehanna Transit 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Production 169 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: 2020, 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.