Hospitals, general medical and surgical · South Carolina

Palmetto Health Richland

Name: Palmetto Health Richland Workplace Safety Data
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Columbia, SC · ~5,949 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmetto Health Richland runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Palmetto Health Richland: 4.5 TCR = 60% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmetto Health Richland safety composite

Palmetto Health Richland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Palmetto Health Richland held a steady TCR band

Palmetto Health Richland's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.8 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 60% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #41/95
PHOTO St. John Medical Cen…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 547 inj
SIZE ~5,949 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. John Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
St. John Medic

4.5
Barbourville A

4.5
AnMed Health C

4.5
Wheeling Hospi

4.5

What this shows Palmetto Health Richland averages 4.5 TCR (60% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

Palmetto Health Richland TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=5.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Palmetto Health Richland falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 95 Hospitals, general medical and employers in South Carolina.

Palmetto Health Richland (5,949 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Palmetto Health Richland has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a lower 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
2019	5.2	1.9	228	5
2018	3.5	0.7	131	0
2017	4.8	1.3	188	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · SC · Columbia

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	St. John Medical Center	WESTLAKE, OH	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Barbourville ARH	BARBOURVILLE, KY	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AnMed Health Cannon	PICKENS, SC	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wheeling Hospital	WHEELING, WV	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	SC007	NORTH CLARLESTON	5,982 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Medical University of South Carolina	CHARLESTON	5,881 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GREENVILLE MEMORIAL MED CAMPUS	GREENVILLE	6,132 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Spartanburg Medical Center	SPARTANBURG	5,386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Prisma Health Richland	Columbia	4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR	South Carolina Department of Transportation	Columbia	4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SC Department of Transportation	Columbia	3,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palmetto Health Baptist	Columbia	2,617 FTE
NAT-TCR	Paris Healthcare Linen Services--Ravenna	Ravenna, OH	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ocean Enterprises LLC	Minneapolis, MN	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pcore Electric Company, Inc -Reuel Plant	Goldsboro, NC	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shopko Hometown #671 (Waukon, IA)	Waukon, IA	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Tufts Medical Center	Boston, MA	5,938 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC	Lincoln, AL	5,962 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cape Fear Valley Health System/Cumberland County	Fayetteville, NC	5,925 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Further Processing	Springdale, AR	5,981 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.