Crane rental with operator · South Carolina

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch

Lexington, SC · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Crane rental with operator workplace, earning a grade B.

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch: 1.5 TCR = 52% of Crane rental with operator BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch safety composite

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch held a steady TCR band

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Lexington, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO Outside The Lines
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Outside The Lines (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch averages 1.5 TCR (52% of the Crane rental with operator BLS benchmark).

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

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch falls in its industry

1,634 Crane rental with operator establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Crane rental with operator employers in South Carolina.

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch (32 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch
Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch (32 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Southway Crane & Rigging - Columbia Branch has fewer employees than the Crane rental with operator median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2019 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · SC · Lexington

1,634 Crane rental with operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, 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 Outside The Lines 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BrandSafway Solutions, LLC dba New England Scaffolding Services, LLC - Auburn 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MobleySafway - Mobile Branch 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shiloh Paving and Excavating, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humphrey Coker Seed Company Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Utility 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgeland 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR American Distillation Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baymarr Constructors, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Holy Spirit Hospital 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tudi Mechanical Systems, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rath Inc., Milledgeville Facility 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wood Harvest, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voris Mechanical, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office Sunset Food Mart, Inc 32 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.