Hospitals, general medical and surgical · South Carolina

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center

Chester, SC · ~344 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center: 6.5 TCR = 87% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center safety composite

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.9

2019→2024

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center injury rate improved

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center's TCR fell 0.9 from 6.5 in 2019 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.5 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Chester, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.5 · 87% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #73/95
  • PHOTO LAURENS COUNTY MEDIC…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAURENS COUNTY MEDICAL CAMPUS (0.0 TCR gap)

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MUSC Health Chester Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MUSC Health Chester Medical Center averages 6.5 TCR (87% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center TCR series: 2019=6.5 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 7.5

Where MUSC Health Chester Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 95 Hospitals, general medical and employers in South Carolina.

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center (344 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MUSC Health Chester Medical Center
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center (344 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 5.6 1.6 16 1 0
2023 7.4 2.1 21 0 0
2022 2.2 1.8 6 0 0
2021 8.2 2.0 16 0 0
2020 9.2 4.3 12 1 0
2019 6.5 0.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SC · Chester

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 LAURENS COUNTY MEDICAL CAMPUS 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Saint Paul Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Health IHA Medical Group Primary Care Arbor Park 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tempe St. Luke's Hospital 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Steel Products 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Mill Distribution Center 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Renfrow Industrial 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspire Bakeries- West Columbia, SC 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1603 198 FTE
NAT-TCR The Residence at Voorhees 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1030 - Memphis NE 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sinclairville Volunteer Fire Company 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Eisenman 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advance Auto Parts DC 42 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slurry Pavers, Inc 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Detroit 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of New England 344 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, 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.