Marine cargo handling services · South Carolina

Union Pier Terminal

Charleston, SC · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Union Pier Terminal runs at 373% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Marine cargo handling services workplace, earning a grade F.

Union Pier Terminal: 16.8 TCR = 373% of Marine cargo handling services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Pier Terminal safety composite

Union Pier Terminal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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 Terminal: 2.4 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 32.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Union Pier Terminal's TCR rose 16.6 from 2.4 in 2018 to 19.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 32.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 373% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO GTI
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GTI (0.1 TCR gap)

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Union Pier Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Pier Terminal averages 16.8 TCR (373% 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 Terminal TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=4 · 2020=19.8 · 2022=22.8 · 2023=32.7 · 2024=19 · BLS 4.5

Where Union Pier Terminal falls in its industry

391 Marine cargo handling services establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #15 safest of 15 Marine cargo handling services employers in South Carolina.

Union Pier Terminal (68 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Terminal
Union Pier Terminal (68 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Union Pier Terminal has fewer 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
2024 19.0 9.5 6 6 0
2023 32.7 23.2 17 7 0
2022 22.8 17.1 4 0 0
2020 19.8 19.8 1 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2018 2.4 1.9 5 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 GTI 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luis A. AyalaColon Sucrs., Inc. 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SSA Cooper Wilmington 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morehead City, NC - SEC 17.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE COPE GENERATING PLANT 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Power Delivery (Columbia) 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group South Carolina, LLC- Greenville 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville/Ashville 68 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 Cargo Handling Airport Services, LLC 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR North City Water Reclamation Plant 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecumen prairie Lodge 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochester Store 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shurpac Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overhead Door Company of Albuquerque 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Table Topics 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE AirCare Ambulance 68 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.