Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · South Carolina

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care

Okatie, SC · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care runs at 628% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care: 23.9 TCR = 628% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care safety composite

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care: 5.8 → 41.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 41.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2023

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care's TCR rose 36.1 from 5.8 in 2022 to 41.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Okatie, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.9 · 628% of ind

  • DART 25.2 DART
  • RANK #103/107
  • PHOTO 10560
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10560 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care averages 23.9 TCR (628% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care TCR series: 2022=5.8 · 2023=41.9 · BLS 3.8

Where The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 107 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in South Carolina.

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care (37 employees, TCR 23.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care
The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care (37 employees, TCR 23.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

The Palmettos of Bluffton Assisted Living and Memory Care has fewer employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 41.9 25.2 1 9 0
2022 5.8 4.0 6 16 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · SC · Okatie

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 8 employers in Okatie, 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 10560 23.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engel Burman Sr. Hoursing @ E. Northport 23.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Copper Canyon 23.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Crossings at Riverview 23.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rainey Generating Station 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fleet/Radio (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Shelving & Mirror #565 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spring Island Club 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Callawassie Island Property Owner's Association 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sprenger Health Care of Bluffton 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0578 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0760 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aperion Care Princeton 23.9 TCR
NAT-TCR YMCA Camp Y-Noah 23.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silverado Hospice South Houston - 353 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Pipe Group Bakewell 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samtech Automotive USA, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE D89 San Diego 37 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.