State police · South Carolina

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services

Blythewood, SC · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical State police workplace, earning a grade B.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services: 1.7 TCR = 53% of State police BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services safety composite

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−2.7

2022→2024

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services injury rate improved

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.7 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Blythewood, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Office of Field Oper…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office of Field Operations - Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services 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 - Bureau of Protective Services averages 1.7 TCR (53% 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 - Bureau of Protective Services TCR series: 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services falls in its industry

716 State police establishments

Safer than 96% 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 #2 safest of 8 State police employers in South Carolina.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services (84 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services
South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services (84 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 - Bureau of Protective Services has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 2 0 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 Office of Field Operations - Chicago 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR State Police Administrative Headquarters (SPHQ) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (48) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Altoona- Police Department 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE McClam & Associates Inc 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE BKGP 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE IG Design Group Americas, Inc. - Leesville, SC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowpens SC Truss 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - All Divisions 1,348 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
NAT-TCR Seretta Construction Mid-Atlantic, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Security Solutions Northwest Bellingham 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Lubrication Specialties 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Midland Jobsites 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quincy Community Health Center 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE MJB El Dorado 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willamette Farms Moses Lake 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ama Grain Port Location 84 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.