Furnace filters manufacturing · South Carolina

PPA Industries, Inc

Wellford, SC · ~119 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PPA Industries, Inc runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Furnace filters manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

PPA Industries, Inc: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Furnace filters manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PPA Industries, Inc safety composite

PPA Industries, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.1

2016→2021

PPA Industries, Inc injury rate improved

PPA Industries, Inc's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=1.0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333413 · Wellford, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Camfil USA - Oklahom…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Camfil USA - Oklahoma Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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PPA Industries, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PPA Industries, Inc averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Furnace filters manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PPA Industries, Inc TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=1 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where PPA Industries, Inc falls in its industry

232 Furnace filters manufacturing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Furnace filters manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

PPA Industries, Inc (119 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PPA Industries, Inc
PPA Industries, Inc (119 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.1

PPA Industries, Inc has more employees than the Furnace filters manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2019 3.1 1.5 4 0 0
2018 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.1 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333413 · SC · Wellford

232 Furnace filters manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Wellford, 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 Camfil USA - Oklahoma Branch 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howden Roots LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solberg Manufacturing 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camfil - Kalamazoo 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Santee Electric Cooperative, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed Air Corp Seneca 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Distribution Inc. - Rock Hill, SC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowes Foods #267 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEW Eurodrive Lyman Assembly 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Wellford, South Carolina 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wellford 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGV 100 FTE
NAT-TCR NavyArmy Community Credit Union 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 49241e - Sacramento Trad Sales 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Normal 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cirtec Medical-CA 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shields for Families - Administration 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Serta Clear Lake 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilty Memorial Home 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strack and Van Til Hobart 119 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.