Food Distribution · South Carolina

US Foods Columbia, SC

Lexington, SC · ~731 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US Foods Columbia, SC runs at 526% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

US Foods Columbia, SC: 11.6 TCR = 526% of Food Distribution BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US Foods Columbia, SC safety composite

US Foods Columbia, SC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

US Foods Columbia, SC: 9.1 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2022

US Foods Columbia, SC's TCR rose 7.5 from 9.1 in 2019 to 16.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Lexington, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 526% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #29/30
  • PHOTO Restaurant Depot 571
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 252 inj
  • SIZE ~731 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Restaurant Depot 571 (0.0 TCR gap)

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US Foods Columbia, SC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US Foods Columbia, SC averages 11.6 TCR (526% of the Food Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

US Foods Columbia, SC TCR series: 2019=9.1 · 2020=9 · 2022=16.6 · BLS 2.2

Where US Foods Columbia, SC falls in its industry

1,651 Food Distribution establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 30 Food Distribution employers in South Carolina.

US Foods Columbia, SC (731 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate US Foods Columbia, SC
US Foods Columbia, SC (731 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

US Foods Columbia, SC has more employees than the Food Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2022 16.6 16.0 123 6 0
2020 9.0 8.1 56 4 0
2019 9.1 8.6 73 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · SC · Lexington

1,651 Food Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 136 employers in Lexington, 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 Restaurant Depot 571 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AF Wendling 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Custom Distribution Aurora 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiCarlo Distributors 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nutra Manufacturing - Greenville Facility 736 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walter P Rawl and Sons, Inc. 725 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2045-00018W 737 FTE
STATE-SIZE AnMed North Campus 738 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Lexington 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin US5 Lexington SC 1,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michelin North America US7 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia 760 FTE
NAT-TCR Cbi Tifton Dc 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 050222-Anaheim Po 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 481475-Carrollton Po 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vassallo Foods, Inc./Simply 406 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint Mary's University of Minnesota - Winona 731 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia (G6) 731 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowhead - Letterkenny Army Depot 731 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lci - 058 731 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.