Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing · South Carolina

Southern Felt Co Bethune

Bethune, SC · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Felt Co Bethune runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Felt Co Bethune: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Felt Co Bethune safety composite

Southern Felt Co Bethune scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Southern Felt Co Bethune: 3.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.08× in 2023

Southern Felt Co Bethune's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.4 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313230 · Bethune, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO AIM, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AIM, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Felt Co Bethune in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Felt Co Bethune averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Felt Co Bethune TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Felt Co Bethune falls in its industry

191 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufa establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufa employers in South Carolina.

Southern Felt Co Bethune (20 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Felt Co Bethune
Southern Felt Co Bethune (20 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern Felt Co Bethune has fewer employees than the Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 7.7 7.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313230 · SC · Bethune

191 Carded nonwoven fabrics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Bethune, 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 AIM, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wm. T. Burnett & Co., Nonwovens Division - Phoenix 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ahlstrom Nonwovens LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chomarat North America (Commerce Blvd Site) 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Log Creek Timber Company Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dorchestor 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dorchester Biomass LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIELD SERVICES TECH BUILDING 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Bethune, SC 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethune 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unlimited Contract Services Bethune 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETHUNE SITE 74 FTE
NAT-TCR B&B Ice of Tampa Bay 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Byerly Aviation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Enterprises Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton Fire Protection District 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE SILVERDALE 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Probing Investigations, Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Site Work Solutions 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gill Aluminum Products Corp 20 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. 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.