Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing · South Carolina

USA SC Chester Plant

Chester, SC · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA SC Chester Plant runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

USA SC Chester Plant: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA SC Chester Plant safety composite

USA SC Chester Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

USA SC Chester Plant: 2.4 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

USA SC Chester Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.4 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Chester, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #17/29
  • PHOTO Elantas PDG, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elantas PDG, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA SC Chester Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA SC Chester Plant averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

USA SC Chester Plant TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where USA SC Chester Plant falls in its industry

644 Plastics Material and Resin Ma establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 29 Plastics Material and Resin Ma employers in South Carolina.

USA SC Chester Plant (75 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate USA SC Chester Plant
USA SC Chester Plant (75 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

USA SC Chester Plant has more employees than the Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · SC · Chester

644 Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 Elantas PDG, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americas Resins and Global FM : Morganton 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Pig 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AlphPet Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Creative Builders, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill Electric Company 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan-Kel Concrete Cutting 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enviva Pellets Greenwood, LLC ( Formerly, Colombo Energy Inc.) 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Materion - Elmore 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Winpak Films Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1784 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kodiak Alaska - CS 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boys Electrical Contractors LLC Orlando 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vesuvius Penn Wampum 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Neighborhood Hospital Zarzamora 75 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. 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.