Sawmill equipment manufacturing · South Carolina

U.S. Blades

Florence, SC · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Blades runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmill equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

U.S. Blades: 11.2 TCR = 339% of Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Blades safety composite

U.S. Blades scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−19.4

2018→2019

U.S. Blades injury rate improved

U.S. Blades's TCR fell 19.4 from 20.9 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 20.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=20.9 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Florence, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 339% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO PACO Winders Manufac…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PACO Winders Manufacturing LLC (0.4 TCR gap)

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U.S. Blades in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Blades averages 11.2 TCR (339% of the Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

U.S. Blades TCR series: 2018=20.9 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where U.S. Blades falls in its industry

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 6 Sawmill equipment manufacturin employers in South Carolina.

U.S. Blades (34 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Blades
U.S. Blades (34 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

U.S. Blades has fewer employees than the Sawmill equipment manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 1.5 1.5 6 0 0
2018 20.9 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · SC · Florence

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 208 employers in Florence, 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 PACO Winders Manufacturing LLC 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMI Industries RI 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fibre Converters, INC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 27 Enterprise Drive 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TLG TURF 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE ArborGen Inc. Headquarters 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lancaster Operations Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marlboro Electric Cooperative Headquarters Office 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Regional Medical Center 3,889 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLEOD REG MED CTR OF PEE DEE MH101 3,883 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLEOD PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES MH104 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Physician Associates II 1,386 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Southern Regional School Dist 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiffin Univ Wall Street Pub & Grille (Findlay 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc Broward - BARC 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Beck Steel Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA East Boston 15 Transportation 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Fe Biotest Plasma Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAW Macon Service Center 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 571 ABC Supply Co., inc. 34 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: 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.