Couriers and Express Delivery Services · South Carolina

Scton - Palmetto

Charleston, SC · ~215 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scton - Palmetto runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade C.

Scton - Palmetto: 7.2 TCR = 110% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scton - Palmetto safety composite

Scton - Palmetto scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2019→2024

Scton - Palmetto injury rate improved

Scton - Palmetto's TCR fell 4.6 from 9.7 in 2019 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.7 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.2 · 110% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #38/72
  • PHOTO 641530000
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 641530000 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scton - Palmetto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scton - Palmetto averages 7.2 TCR (110% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Scton - Palmetto TCR series: 2019=9.7 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Scton - Palmetto falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 72 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in South Carolina.

Scton - Palmetto (215 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Scton - Palmetto
Scton - Palmetto (215 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Scton - Palmetto has more employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 5.1 3.8 8 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 5 2 0
2022 7.1 6.5 12 0 0
2021 8.8 7.7 15 0 0
2020 7.8 6.6 13 0 0
2019 9.7 7.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · SC · Charleston

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in 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 641530000 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 544550000 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 624010000 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPRING VALLEY (NYSPV) 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sea Fox Boat Company 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Carolina Casualty 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville (GVL) 5002 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treatment Centers Holdco 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Dynamic Design and Manufacturing, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OSF Saint Luke Medical Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR SP Richards 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR All American Service & Supplies 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mayar - Yarmouth 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 3 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marathon Coach, Inc. 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ogg Kahului Airport 215 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.