State police · South Carolina

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters

Blythewood, SC · ~190 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical State police workplace, earning a grade A.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters: 0.8 TCR = 26% of State police BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters safety composite

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

Rising injury rate

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 26% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO CPD-Joint Public Saf…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CPD-Joint Public Safety Training Center | 4443 W. Chicago Ave (0.1 TCR gap)

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South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters 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 - Headquarters averages 0.8 TCR (26% 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 - Headquarters TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.2

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

716 State police establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #1 safest of 8 State police employers in South Carolina.

South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters (190 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 - Headquarters
South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Headquarters (190 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 - Headquarters 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 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2023 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 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 CPD-Joint Public Safety Training Center | 4443 W. Chicago Ave 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Middletown - Central Communications 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hall of Justice 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (53) 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Easley Plant 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Musgrove Plant 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1383 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 0459 190 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 PMT Plant Manatee 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Team Brandt, LLC - 3654 S. Willow Fresno 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain PetSmart Columbus 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain Blacklick 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Decatur Trucking Terminal 148 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3LZ - Smith Optics -Clearfield 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massillon Oh - 3258 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek Wi - 3032 190 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.