Employer · South Carolina

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown

Columbia, SC · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown: 6.9 TCR = 154% of industry BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown safety composite

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown: 7.2 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown's TCR rose 0.7 from 7.2 in 2022 to 7.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 154% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #65/72
  • PHOTO 8055 U of FL Medical…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 8055 U of FL Medical Center East (0.0 TCR gap)

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MUSC Columbia MC Downtown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MUSC Columbia MC Downtown averages 6.9 TCR (154% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown TCR series: 2022=7.2 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where MUSC Columbia MC Downtown falls in its industry

4,064 industry establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 72 industry employers in South Carolina.

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown (42 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MUSC Columbia MC Downtown
MUSC Columbia MC Downtown (42 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

MUSC Columbia MC Downtown has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 7.9 5.3 3 0 0
2023 5.7 2.8 2 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · SC · Columbia

4,064 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 8055 U of FL Medical Center East 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The DM Burr Group - Waterford Schools 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B051 Lindenwood Univ 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR District III - Section 2 Maintenance 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Production Company, LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newberry Electric Cooperative,Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Resource Center PNG 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group South Carolina, LLC- Charleston Division 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Epsom Health Care Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 175 Riviera Beach Fl 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR UnityPoint Health-St Luke's Hospital 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellevue Main Office 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Titan Group Sales 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uf Cfa Hub 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE HGI Albany Airport 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRAD Chapel Hill 42 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.