Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing · South Carolina

Q Plant

West Columbia, SC · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Q Plant runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Q Plant: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Q Plant safety composite

Q Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−19.4

2017→2024

Q Plant injury rate improved

Q Plant's TCR fell 19.4 from 19.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · West Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO ITW-Hobart Corporation
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITW-Hobart Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Q Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Q Plant averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Q Plant TCR series: 2017=19.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Q Plant falls in its industry

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manu establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Q Plant (18 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Q Plant
Q Plant (18 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Q Plant has fewer employees than the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.4 6.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 19.4 6.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · SC · West Columbia

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Columbia, SC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ITW-Hobart Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norland International Inc./American Beer Equipmen 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stainless Technologies 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baxter Orting, WA 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE JOHNSTON DISTRICT OFFICE 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summerville District Office (Gas/Fleet) 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowcountry Regional Water System 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenWood, Inc. - FijiFilm 3PG - FPG 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lexington Medical Center 4,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-02 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAE1 2,755 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CAE1 2,722 FTE
NAT-TCR Insta-Pro International 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawson Companies 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Houlton 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Woodhaven Brownstown School Di 3.2 TCR

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, 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.