Courier Services Except by Air · South Carolina

Palmetto (Scton)

Charleston, SC · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmetto (Scton) runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmetto (Scton): 8.6 TCR = 132% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmetto (Scton) safety composite

Palmetto (Scton) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Palmetto (Scton): 7.3 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2018

Palmetto (Scton)'s TCR rose 2.7 from 7.3 in 2017 to 9.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 132% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #46/72
  • PHOTO D. Beyer Associates,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D. Beyer Associates, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmetto (Scton) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmetto (Scton) averages 8.6 TCR (132% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Palmetto (Scton) TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=9.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Palmetto (Scton) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 72 Courier Services Except by Air employers in South Carolina.

Palmetto (Scton) (180 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmetto (Scton)
Palmetto (Scton) (180 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Palmetto (Scton) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 9.9 7.3 15 0 0
2017 7.3 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SC · Charleston

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 D. Beyer Associates, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLLEE - LEESBURG CENTER 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Starbird Delivery LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 240730000 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE UFP NAC, LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Steel LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filtration Group LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2207 LOWE S OF N. AUGUSTA SC 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Dekalb (Ildek) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR STL-SPUSA 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 0323 - Sugar Land, Tx 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Longview (Txlon) 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevens Point Hub (Wiste) 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nampa Center (Idnam) 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocala Center (Floca) 180 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.