Aircraft manufacturing · South Carolina

TIGHITCO Ladson

Ladson, SC · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TIGHITCO Ladson runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

TIGHITCO Ladson: 5.5 TCR = 168% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TIGHITCO Ladson safety composite

TIGHITCO Ladson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TIGHITCO Ladson held a steady TCR band

TIGHITCO Ladson's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.4 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Ladson, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Safran Landing Syste…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Safran Landing Systems (ABE) (0.0 TCR gap)

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TIGHITCO Ladson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TIGHITCO Ladson averages 5.5 TCR (168% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TIGHITCO Ladson TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where TIGHITCO Ladson falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Aircraft manufacturing employers in South Carolina.

TIGHITCO Ladson (89 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate TIGHITCO Ladson
TIGHITCO Ladson (89 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

TIGHITCO Ladson has fewer employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 5.7 3.8 6 0 0
2016 5.4 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · SC · Ladson

390 Aircraft manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ladson, 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 Safran Landing Systems (ABE) 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dassault Aircraft Services - Reno 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norfolk, VA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4620 - G-Force Manufacturing 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greenville 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lanxess 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville, SC - Asheville, NC HVAC 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yemassee SC Truss 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedes-Benz Vans 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercedez-Benz Vans LLC 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holset Palmetto Plant 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cummins Turbo Technologies 633 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Joseph Health Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Core Converting Operations 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foster Ave (Nyfos) 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Lloyd 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Anderson LLC 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Jonesburg Inc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Management Corporation Eagan 89 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.