Ball bearings manufacturing · South Carolina

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter

Sumter, SC · ~353 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter safety composite

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−0.6

2017→2023

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter injury rate improved

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Sumter, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO TN-Tennessee, LLC.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~353 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TN-Tennessee, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SKF USA Inc. - Sumter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SKF USA Inc. - Sumter averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=3 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where SKF USA Inc. - Sumter falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter (353 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SKF USA Inc. - Sumter
SKF USA Inc. - Sumter (353 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

SKF USA Inc. - Sumter has more employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2023 1.2 1.0 5 0 0
2022 3.4 1.9 14 0 0
2021 2.2 1.6 8 0 0
2020 3.0 0.6 10 0 0
2019 2.3 1.4 8 0 0
2018 1.7 1.4 6 0 0
2017 1.8 1.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · SC · Sumter

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 130 employers in Sumter, 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 TN-Tennessee, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincolnton 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaydon Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1359 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE 574 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 638 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLeod Health-Cheraw MH110 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thompson Construction Group 2,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Tuomey 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumter Utilities, Inc. 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Amityville IRA - Schleigel 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon Medical - Indianapolis 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Services, LLC - Philadelphia Branch 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Gas and Electric Co. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE TKI Mitchell 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frank Gargiulo & Son, Inc. 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Upfield Sourcing US Inc. - New Century 353 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.