State police · South Carolina

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions

Blythewood, SC · ~1,348 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical State police workplace, earning a grade F.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions: 6.5 TCR = 203% of State police BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions safety composite

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.4

2023→2024

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions injury rate improved

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.7 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.7 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Blythewood, SC ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 203% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Sheriff's Office Pat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 152 inj
  • SIZE ~1,348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheriff's Office Patrol and Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions averages 6.5 TCR (203% of the State police BLS benchmark).

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

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions TCR series: 2023=6.7 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.2

Where South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions falls in its industry

716 State police establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 State police employers in South Carolina.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions (1,348 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions
South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions (1,348 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions has more employees than the State police median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 6.3 5.1 74 3 0
2023 6.7 5.3 78 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · SC · Blythewood

716 State police employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 36 employers in Blythewood, 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 Sheriff's Office Patrol and Administration 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD Airport Operations - John Wayne Airport 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Deerfield - Police 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0594 - Lugoff DC 1,340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medical Grouop of the Carolinas 1,360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koyo Richland Plant 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR JTEKT North America 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR C425 Columbia 202 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Component Plant 532 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trachte Southeast 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Haxton Masonry, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Foodservice Management, Inc. 1,348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Health West 1,348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick 1,348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc. 1,348 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.