Cottage for-sale builders · South Carolina

Sands Building Group

Myrtle Beach, SC · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sands Building Group runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cottage for-sale builders workplace, earning a grade D.

Sands Building Group: 6.0 TCR = 158% of Cottage for-sale builders BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sands Building Group safety composite

Sands Building Group scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Sands Building Group: 4.8 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Sands Building Group's TCR rose 2.3 from 4.8 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Myrtle Beach, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Kay Builders
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kay Builders (0.2 TCR gap)

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Sands Building Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sands Building Group averages 6.0 TCR (158% of the Cottage for-sale builders BLS benchmark).

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

Sands Building Group TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Sands Building Group falls in its industry

341 Cottage for-sale builders establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Cottage for-sale builders employers in South Carolina.

Sands Building Group (40 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sands Building Group
Sands Building Group (40 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Sands Building Group has fewer employees than the Cottage for-sale builders median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 7.2 4.8 2 1 0
2023 4.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · SC · Myrtle Beach

341 Cottage for-sale builders employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 244 employers in Myrtle Beach, 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 Kay Builders 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAIRY FARMS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockaway Beach Blvd Construction Co 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forino Co., LP 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Thinning Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Region Complex (Florence) 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEC Main Location 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance, Services and Operations LLC Job #32330 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA - Grand Strand Medical Center 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Strand Health 1,257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Founders National Golf, LLC 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Lakes Service Corp. 440 FTE
NAT-TCR Mansfield Engineered Components 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shawano Place Senior Living 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmer 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Utvrn - Vernal Mdc Facility 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holly Hunt Manufacturing 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 255 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE C & H Construction Services, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE DIALSA-FRMC1-DIALYSIS-SANDUSKY 40 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. 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.