Marine cargo handling services · South Carolina

Union Pier

Charleston, SC · ~182 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Union Pier runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade D.

Union Pier: 8.7 TCR = 194% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Pier safety composite

Union Pier scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Union Pier: 5.9 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2020

Union Pier's TCR rose 7.3 from 5.9 in 2018 to 13.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488320 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 194% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Coastal Cargo Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coastal Cargo Company, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Union Pier in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Pier averages 8.7 TCR (194% of the Marine cargo handling services BLS benchmark).

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

Union Pier TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=13.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Union Pier falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #9 safest of 15 Marine cargo handling services employers in South Carolina.

Union Pier (182 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 Union Pier
Union Pier (182 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Union Pier has more employees than the Marine cargo handling services 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
2020 13.2 9.9 10 2 0
2019 7.1 5.7 5 0 0
2018 5.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488320 · SC · Charleston

391 Marine cargo handling services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 Coastal Cargo Company, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Cruise - LA 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Terminal 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tartan Terminals 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE J.H. Hiers Construction 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSP Estill 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Omnium Clean Energy Systems 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Systems, Inc 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR Alabama 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin - Green Bay Admin Yard 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR state steel GI 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at Northrise 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oberlander Electric Co. 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVPX - Avis Phoenix 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITT Cannon 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Santa Ana 182 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.