Acetal resins manufacturing · South Carolina

Shakespeare

Columbia, SC · ~282 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Shakespeare runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Acetal resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shakespeare: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Acetal resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shakespeare safety composite

Shakespeare scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Shakespeare: 2.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2023

Shakespeare's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.0 in 2017 to 4.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Columbia, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO EMS-CHEMIE (North Am…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMS-CHEMIE (North America) Inc., USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shakespeare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shakespeare averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Acetal resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shakespeare TCR series: 2017=2 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.5 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Shakespeare falls in its industry

644 Acetal resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #21 safest of 29 Acetal resins manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

Shakespeare (282 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Shakespeare
Shakespeare (282 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Shakespeare has more employees than the Acetal resins 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
2023 4.1 3.3 10 0 1
2021 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2020 2.6 1.9 8 0 0
2019 1.9 1.9 3 1 0
2017 2.0 1.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · SC · Columbia

644 Acetal resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, 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 EMS-CHEMIE (North America) Inc., USA 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primester 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lucas Ferry - Custom Polymers PET LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Plastics - Houston 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lancaster Manufacturing : Lancaster, SC 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1017 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC CMOP 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wesley Commons 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Cahokia Unit Sd 187 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR EDEP 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D-Line Constructors, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greene County General Hospital 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Porto's Bakery Downey, Inc. 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Seating Company 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPL USA Inc. 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herff Jones Yearbook Division 282 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.