Freight Transportation · South Carolina

NCO

West Columbia, SC · ~44 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NCO runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

NCO: 7.0 TCR = 156% of Freight Transportation BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NCO safety composite

NCO scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

NCO held a steady TCR band

NCO's TCR held near 0.2 from 9.8 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.8 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=13.0 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=9.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · West Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #30/46
  • PHOTO Cameron
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cameron (0.0 TCR gap)

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NCO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NCO averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the Freight Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

NCO TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=13 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 4.5

Where NCO falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Transportation establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 46 Freight Transportation employers in South Carolina.

NCO (44 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NCO
NCO (44 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

NCO has fewer employees than the Freight Transportation median and a higher 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 9.7 9.7 5 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 9.7 5.8 5 0 0
2021 13.0 13.0 6 0 0
2020 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2017 7.3 0.0 3 0 0
2016 9.8 4.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · SC · West Columbia

3,020 Freight Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West 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 Cameron 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Harbor - NCA/NV - 038 - STK 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NNC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Freight Lines Inc- Nashville 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-26 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lee Steam Station 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Marion Maintenance 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE METRO COLUMBIA CREW QUARTERS 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Spirit Lake Branch 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ripon Service Building 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Highway 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas Fencing, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NDE 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHN 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE WESSC West Shore Service Center 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE R. J. Corman Signaling Company, LLC 44 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.