Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing · South Carolina

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC

Ladson, SC · ~1,709 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC safety composite

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC: 3.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2024

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.0 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336112 · Ladson, SC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK P68
  • PHOTO Cliffside Body Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 105 inj
  • SIZE ~1,709 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cliffside Body Corp (0.2 TCR gap)

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Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC falls in its industry

34 Cab and chassis, light trucks establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC (1,709 employees, TCR 3.5) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 4,257 employees and a TCR of 5.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC
Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC (1,709 employees, TCR 3.5) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 4,257 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC has fewer employees than the Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 4.0 0.5 58 0 0
2023 3.0 1.0 47 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336112 · SC · Ladson

34 Cab and chassis, light trucks and vans, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ladson, 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 Cliffside Body Corp 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AM General LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Navistar Springfield Assembly Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DACJ Metering and Sequencing 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michelin North America, Inc. - Corporate Site 1,709 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Charleston 1,715 FTE
STATE-SIZE Volvo Car US Operations/Ridgeville, SC 1,698 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercedes-Benz Vans 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holset Palmetto Plant 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cummins Turbo Technologies 633 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFA-Rotorion 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schnellecke Logistics South Carolina, LLC 388 FTE
NAT-TCR Northland Service Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 258 Hampton Village 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 63 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Auburn Community Hospital 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arrowhead Regional Medical Center 1,709 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waldinger Corporation 1,709 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samaritan Hospital 1,709 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monongalia General Hospital 1,710 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. 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.