Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · South Carolina

Protego (USA), Inc.

Ladson, SC · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protego (USA), Inc. runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Protego (USA), Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protego (USA), Inc. safety composite

Protego (USA), Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.1

2019→2024

Protego (USA), Inc. injury rate improved

Protego (USA), Inc.'s TCR fell 1.1 from 3.1 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=18.1 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Ladson, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Tate Andale, LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tate Andale, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protego (USA), Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protego (USA), Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Protego (USA), Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=18.1 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Protego (USA), Inc. falls in its industry

298 Angle valves, industrial-type, establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Angle valves, industrial-type, employers in South Carolina.

Protego (USA), Inc. (45 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Protego (USA), Inc.
Protego (USA), Inc. (45 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Protego (USA), Inc. has fewer employees than the Angle valves, industrial-type, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2024 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2021 18.1 18.1 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · SC · Ladson

298 Angle valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ladson, 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 Tate Andale, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BioChem85Boonton 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bypass Facility 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimball 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CBG, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmetto State Glass 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE US176: Columbia 216 - SG 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 36 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes-Benz Vans 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holset Palmetto Plant 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cummins Turbo Technologies 633 FTE
NAT-TCR NCC020 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 512RCH 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR North Little Rock 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Placid Sod 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Construction Group I LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.R.E. Manufacturing, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ramey Construction Company, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Profire LLC 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.