Curtain wall, glass, installation · South Carolina

Palmetto State Glass

Columbia, SC · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmetto State Glass runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Curtain wall, glass, installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Palmetto State Glass: 5.5 TCR = 196% of Curtain wall, glass, installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmetto State Glass safety composite

Palmetto State Glass scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Palmetto State Glass: 2.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2020

Palmetto State Glass's TCR rose 5.3 from 2.4 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238150 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 196% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Binswanger Glass Bra…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Binswanger Glass Branch 139 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmetto State Glass in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmetto State Glass averages 5.5 TCR (196% of the Curtain wall, glass, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Palmetto State Glass TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=6.3 · 2020=7.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Palmetto State Glass falls in its industry

531 Curtain wall, glass, installat establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Curtain wall, glass, installat employers in South Carolina.

Palmetto State Glass (45 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmetto State Glass
Palmetto State Glass (45 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Palmetto State Glass has more employees than the Curtain wall, glass, installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 7.7 3.1 5 0 0
2018 6.3 2.1 3 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238150 · SC · Columbia

531 Curtain wall, glass, installation 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Binswanger Glass Branch 139 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CK2 Contracting, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 111 Murray Street 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Plate Glass Company 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CBG, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE US176: Columbia 216 - SG 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 36 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE SSDGreenville 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR 43 California Avenue 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapin Home For The Aging 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Doerfler Farms, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn West Medical Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Rock Construction, LLC. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bolton & Menk - Maplewood 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard by Marriott Pittsburgh - Shadyside 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geo's Shop/Offices 45 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: 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.