Bottles, plastics, manufacturing · South Carolina

Ring Container Chester

Chester, SC · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Ring Container Chester runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bottles, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ring Container Chester: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ring Container Chester safety composite

Ring Container Chester scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Ring Container Chester: 2.1 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Ring Container Chester's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.1 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326160 · Chester, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Badger Color Concent…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ring Container Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ring Container Chester averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ring Container Chester TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ring Container Chester falls in its industry

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 28% 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 8 Bottles, plastics, manufacturi employers in South Carolina.

Ring Container Chester (50 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ring Container Chester
Ring Container Chester (50 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Ring Container Chester has fewer employees than the Bottles, plastics, manufacturing 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 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326160 · SC · Chester

411 Bottles, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 Badger Color Concentrates Inc North Carolina 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 021 - Naugatuck 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pretium Packaging - Salt Lake City 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ring Container St Joseph 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Langley Electric Ops 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEC - Goose Creek Facility 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santee Cooper Cross 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape Fear Utilities, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR St Gerards Community of Care 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream & Desserts, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KTA Express - Kealakekua 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Armada - Greencastle 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warm Rain Corporation 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wild By Nature #202 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Perforated Metals, Inc. 50 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. 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.