Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · South Carolina

O C Welch Ford 2023

Hardeeville, SC · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O C Welch Ford 2023 runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

O C Welch Ford 2023: 8.7 TCR = 255% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O C Welch Ford 2023 safety composite

O C Welch Ford 2023 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2023→2024

O C Welch Ford 2023 injury rate improved

O C Welch Ford 2023's TCR fell 2.3 from 9.8 in 2023 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.8 · 2024=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Hardeeville, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 255% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #42/46
  • PHOTO 2255
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2255 (0.0 TCR gap)

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O C Welch Ford 2023 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O C Welch Ford 2023 averages 8.7 TCR (255% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

O C Welch Ford 2023 TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.4

Where O C Welch Ford 2023 falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 46 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in South Carolina.

O C Welch Ford 2023 (98 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate O C Welch Ford 2023
O C Welch Ford 2023 (98 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

O C Welch Ford 2023 has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.5 0.0 7 0 0
2023 9.8 2.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · SC · Hardeeville

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 41 employers in Hardeeville, 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 2255 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest Lake Chrysler Dodge Jeep & Ram 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BB Motor Sales LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highpoint Auto & Truck 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Bethune 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE JIPSD 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concept Packaging Group 1 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE allnex USA, Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-629 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2832 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2832 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 1354 151 FTE
NAT-TCR Mnthe - Thief River Falls 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pan American Properties, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Staypineapple, The Loop Chicago 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 106572 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chr Hansen - Madison 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Schaumburg Chevrolet 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 138 Harvester 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avenue at Wooster 98 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.