Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Spruill Ave.

North Charleston, SC · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spruill Ave. runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Spruill Ave.: 7.5 TCR = 340% of Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spruill Ave. safety composite

Spruill Ave. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Spruill Ave.: 2.4 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.88× in 2024

Spruill Ave.'s TCR rose 11.7 from 2.4 in 2022 to 14.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 340% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO LaGrange
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaGrange (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spruill Ave. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spruill Ave. averages 7.5 TCR (340% of the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Spruill Ave. TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=6 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Spruill Ave. falls in its industry

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Metal scrap and waste merchant employers in South Carolina.

Spruill Ave. (56 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Spruill Ave.
Spruill Ave. (56 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Spruill Ave. has more employees than the Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesale median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 14.1 14.1 7 0 0
2023 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · SC · North Charleston

1,126 Metal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, 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 LaGrange 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FPT - Miami 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMR Advanced Recycling LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aim Recycling Colton 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lockhart Power Company 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction Professionals Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartanburg Water Customer Service 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Companies South Carolina Office 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston County 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Goodwill Services 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRC Charleston ISS Division 815 FTE
NAT-TCR The Shores Post Acute 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Regional Medical Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaefer Brush Mfg, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AB Safe Haven 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Residence Management Grp 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Design Cuisine Kitchen 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE TN1 ICT - Tullahoma 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greif (MG TACOMA) 56 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.