City and town managers' offices · South Carolina

Town of Blacksburg

Blacksburg, SC · ~32 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Blacksburg runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Town of Blacksburg: 6.1 TCR = 191% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Blacksburg safety composite

Town of Blacksburg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Town of Blacksburg: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

Town of Blacksburg's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Blacksburg, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 191% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #14/46
  • PHOTO CWC - Courthouse/Annex
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CWC - Courthouse/Annex (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Blacksburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Blacksburg averages 6.1 TCR (191% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Blacksburg TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=16 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Blacksburg falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 46 City and town managers' office employers in South Carolina.

Town of Blacksburg (32 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Blacksburg
Town of Blacksburg (32 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Town of Blacksburg has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2023 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 16.0 2.7 6 0 0
2019 5.5 0.0 0 2 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · SC · Blacksburg

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 13 employers in Blacksburg, 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 CWC - Courthouse/Annex 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Montcalm 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR M.A.C. DEPARTAMENTO DE OBRAS PUBLICAS MUNICIPAL (SIOC) 14104 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darlington County 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Humphrey Coker Seed Company Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Humphrey Coker Seed Company - Salters Gin 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Utility 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgeland 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magnolia Finishing Plant 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken and Company - Allen Chemical Plant 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken & Company Allen Plant 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moorhead Brothers Inc 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Alexander Ranch, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Pacific Medical Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha 136 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Black-Haak Heating, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MJM Mechanical, LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ray Smith & Associates, Inc. 78 White Street 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE JD Farm Labor Services 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnum Construction 32 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.