Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing · South Carolina

Sun Chemical Goose Creek

Goose Creek, SC · ~173 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Sun Chemical Goose Creek runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sun Chemical Goose Creek: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Chemical Goose Creek safety composite

Sun Chemical Goose Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Sun Chemical Goose Creek: 1.5 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2017

Sun Chemical Goose Creek's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.5 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325130 · Goose Creek, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Sun Chemical
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Chemical (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · South Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Sun Chemical Goose Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Chemical Goose Creek averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Chemical Goose Creek TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Sun Chemical Goose Creek falls in its industry

75 Color pigments, organic (excep establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 11 Color pigments, organic (excep employers in South Carolina.

Sun Chemical Goose Creek (173 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sun Chemical Goose Creek
Sun Chemical Goose Creek (173 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sun Chemical Goose Creek has more employees than the Color pigments, organic (except animal b median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2017 4.3 3.8 8 1 0
2016 1.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325130 · SC · Goose Creek

75 Color pigments, organic (except animal black, bone black), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 85 employers in Goose Creek, 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 Sun Chemical 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chromascape, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorcon, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solomon Colors, Inc. 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BLYTHE CONSTRUCTION/ZACHARY CONTRUCTION JOINT VENTURE 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cleland Site Prep., Inc. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Pet Food Processors of South Carolina 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clover 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR APS-3 KBR 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR APS-3 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR W. International SC, LLC 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2928 473 FTE
NAT-TCR South 601 (Stores) MNE9 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hot Springs Office AKK7 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Croydon 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheeling (Wvwhe) 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westin Buckhead Atlanta 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester (Nyroc) 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paducah (Kypad) 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hiawatha (Iahia) 173 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: 2017, 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.