Public School District · South Carolina

School Food Services

North Charleston, SC · ~422 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

School Food Services runs at 558% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Public School District workplace, earning a grade F.

School Food Services: 7.8 TCR = 558% of Public School District BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

School Food Services safety composite

School Food Services 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.27 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2023→2024

School Food Services injury rate improved

School Food Services's TCR fell 1.1 from 8.4 in 2023 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.4 · 2024=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 558% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #113/129
  • PHOTO Waverly Elementary S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~422 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waverly Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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School Food Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows School Food Services averages 7.8 TCR (558% of the Public School District BLS benchmark).

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

School Food Services TCR series: 2023=8.4 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 1.4

Where School Food Services falls in its industry

3,374 Public School District establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #113 safest of 129 Public School District employers in South Carolina.

School Food Services (422 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate School Food Services
School Food Services (422 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

School Food Services has more employees than the Public School District median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 7.3 7.3 18 0 0
2023 8.4 7.6 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · SC · North Charleston

3,374 Public School District employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, 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 Waverly Elementary School 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moore Elementary 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orville Platt High School 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 281 Robbinsdale - Neill 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Charleston 423 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3D Systems - Waterford 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE Leroy Springs & Company, Inc. 423 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Aiken 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston County 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Goodwill Services 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRC Charleston ISS Division 815 FTE
NAT-TCR Macon Office 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Utah Pacific bridge & Steel LTD 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR National Custom Packing 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR T & P Farms, LP 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ColourPop Cosmetics 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSA OCPC call Center 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anacortes Refinery 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caf Management, LLC 422 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.