Coffee roasting · South Carolina

Sandy Run Roasting Plant

Gaston, SC · ~106 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandy Run Roasting Plant runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coffee roasting workplace, earning a grade A.

Sandy Run Roasting Plant: 1.6 TCR = 40% of Coffee roasting BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandy Run Roasting Plant safety composite

Sandy Run Roasting Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Sandy Run Roasting Plant: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Sandy Run Roasting Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Gaston, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO WA - Sumner
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WA - Sumner (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandy Run Roasting Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandy Run Roasting Plant averages 1.6 TCR (40% of the Coffee roasting BLS benchmark).

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

Sandy Run Roasting Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.7 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Sandy Run Roasting Plant falls in its industry

169 Coffee roasting establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #2 safest of 4 Coffee roasting employers in South Carolina.

Sandy Run Roasting Plant (106 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandy Run Roasting Plant
Sandy Run Roasting Plant (106 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Sandy Run Roasting Plant has more employees than the Coffee roasting 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
2024 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2019 3.7 2.8 3 1 0
2018 3.5 1.8 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · SC · Gaston

169 Coffee roasting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 32 employers in Gaston, 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 WA - Sumner 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Sales Location 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Winds Manufacturing 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Plant 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jennings-Dill, Inc. 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Columbia 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.M. Conlon, Inc / Dan-kel Concrete 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Textiles Inc 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Private Residence Gaston SC 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia Site 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR DAK Americas, LLC-Columbia Site 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stier Supply Co. 286 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleco Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RTI Advanced Forming, Inc. - Washington 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elder Care Alliance 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo Home Care 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Broadway Bakery - 5508 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bluffs Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hemphill Home Care 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americana Outdoors 106 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, 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.