Sawmill equipment manufacturing · South Carolina

U.S. Blades Sub LLC

Florence, SC · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Blades Sub LLC runs at 492% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sawmill equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

U.S. Blades Sub LLC: 16.2 TCR = 492% of Sawmill equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Blades Sub LLC safety composite

U.S. Blades Sub LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−20.7

2020→2021

U.S. Blades Sub LLC injury rate improved

U.S. Blades Sub LLC's TCR fell 20.7 from 26.6 in 2020 to 5.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=26.6 · 2021=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.2 · 492% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Alpha Prime Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpha Prime Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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U.S. Blades Sub LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Blades Sub LLC averages 16.2 TCR (492% 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 Sub LLC TCR series: 2020=26.6 · 2021=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where U.S. Blades Sub LLC falls in its industry

137 Sawmill equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #6 safest of 6 Sawmill equipment manufacturin employers in South Carolina.

U.S. Blades Sub LLC (29 employees, TCR 16.2) 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 Sub LLC
U.S. Blades Sub LLC (29 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

U.S. Blades Sub LLC 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
2021 5.9 2.9 2 0 0
2020 26.6 16.6 3 5 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 Alpha Prime Inc. 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intex Technologies 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mereen Johnson LLC Webster SD 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simonds Internation, Big Rapids 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MT PLEASANT CREW QUARTERS 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ni Pacolet Milliken 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston Division 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 32328 29 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 NM Amb - Princeton 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG302 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AAH Avera St. Luke's Home Care 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Valentine Roofing, LLC 16.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Villagio Bradford Village 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apache Camping Center, Portland 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITC Washington 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barker Steel - Canaan, New Hampshire 29 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: 2021, 2020. 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.