Steel mills · South Carolina

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington)

Darlington, SC · ~480 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington): 1.3 TCR = 40% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) safety composite

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) held a steady TCR band

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 1.6 in 2021 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.6 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Darlington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Nucor Steel Auburn, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~480 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Steel mills employers in South Carolina.

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) (480 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington)
Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) (480 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Nucor Steel South Carolina (Darlington) has more employees than the Steel mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 1.5 1.1 8 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 4 0 0
2021 1.6 1.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · SC · Darlington

416 Steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Darlington, 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 Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coshocton Works 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River Steel LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ VC Summer Nuclear Station 480 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEHC : Florence SC, HCS 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Columbia 479 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1146 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darlington County 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC264 Darlington (Dixie) 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7188 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7188 227 FTE
NAT-TCR Sacramento Valley National Cemetery 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : McCook 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Taft Base - Bld: 0221 - 15 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Palomar Power Bldg A Admin - Bld: 6606 - 01 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forks I 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway Arms Inc 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grants Pass, OR 480 FTE
NAT-SIZE Htpn / Tenet 480 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.