Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing · South Carolina

Tidewater Boats, LLC

Lexington, SC · ~230 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tidewater Boats, LLC runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tidewater Boats, LLC: 8.3 TCR = 253% of Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tidewater Boats, LLC safety composite

Tidewater Boats, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2021→2023

Tidewater Boats, LLC injury rate improved

Tidewater Boats, LLC's TCR fell 0.8 from 8.5 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.5 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336612 · Lexington, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 253% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Bertram Yachts LLC.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~230 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bertram Yachts LLC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Tidewater Boats, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tidewater Boats, LLC averages 8.3 TCR (253% of the Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tidewater Boats, LLC TCR series: 2021=8.5 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Tidewater Boats, LLC falls in its industry

249 Boats (i.e., suitable or inten establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

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 14 Boats (i.e., suitable or inten employers in South Carolina.

Tidewater Boats, LLC (230 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tidewater Boats, LLC
Tidewater Boats, LLC (230 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Tidewater Boats, LLC has more employees than the Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for pe median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.7 5.4 11 9 0
2022 8.9 7.4 14 4 0
2021 8.5 6.8 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336612 · SC · Lexington

249 Boats (i.e., suitable or intended for personal use) manufacturing 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 Bertram Yachts LLC. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LANDAU 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blazer Boats 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueEarth Marine LLC 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mergon Corporation 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orangeburg - Cable Plant 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE 011-00678 230 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-11042000-11042 230 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 Henry Schein - CODEN 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0756 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Westlake Tool & Die 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100072 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thomasville (Todd Court) 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgeport Store / Human Services / Administration 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Betteravia Farms 230 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rxr Ny Pm India LLC 230 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, 2021. 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.