Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging · South Carolina

The Scotts Company - Chester

Chester, SC · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scotts Company - Chester runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging workplace, earning a grade B.

The Scotts Company - Chester: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scotts Company - Chester safety composite

The Scotts Company - Chester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2019→2024

The Scotts Company - Chester injury rate improved

The Scotts Company - Chester's TCR fell 3.7 from 3.7 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Chester, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO The Scotts Company -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Scotts Company - Channahon (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scotts Company - Chester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scotts Company - Chester averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS benchmark).

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

The Scotts Company - Chester TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where The Scotts Company - Chester falls in its industry

163 Growing Media Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Growing Media Manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

The Scotts Company - Chester (58 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Scotts Company - Chester
The Scotts Company - Chester (58 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Scotts Company - Chester has more employees than the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.2 3.9 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · SC · Chester

163 Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 The Scotts Company - Channahon 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Peters, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davie 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Montgomery 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE URQUHART STEAM PLANT 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Operations Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN INSTALLATIONS, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fuji Film 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Channahon 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR H6div-Ph-H6 Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot Erectors 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewisberry PA TSDF 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bosch Rexroth Corporation - Logistics Center 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Providence Women's Shelter 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Las Vegas 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherryvale 58 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.