PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING · South Carolina

USA SC Sumter Plant

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

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA SC Sumter Plant runs at 482% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING workplace, earning a grade F.

USA SC Sumter Plant: 15.9 TCR = 482% of PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA SC Sumter Plant safety composite

USA SC Sumter Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−22.9

2020→2021

USA SC Sumter Plant injury rate improved

USA SC Sumter Plant's TCR fell 22.9 from 27.4 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 27.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=27.4 · 2021=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Sumter, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 482% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Hi-Tech Color, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hi-Tech Color, Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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USA SC Sumter Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA SC Sumter Plant averages 15.9 TCR (482% of the PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING BLS benchmark).

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

USA SC Sumter Plant TCR series: 2020=27.4 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where USA SC Sumter Plant falls in its industry

530 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURIN establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 5 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURIN employers in South Carolina.

USA SC Sumter Plant (34 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 USA SC Sumter Plant
USA SC Sumter Plant (34 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

USA SC Sumter Plant has fewer employees than the PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 4.5 0.9 5 0 0
2020 27.4 13.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · SC · Sumter

530 PAINT AND COATING MANUFACTURING employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 130 employers in Sumter, 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 Hi-Tech Color, Inc. 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & R Powder Coating Lincolnton 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KBP Coil Coaters inc. 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Brick by Dryvit 13.5 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 Thompson Construction Group 2,328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Tuomey 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumter Utilities, Inc. 1,370 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Sockeye Timber Framing 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamaica Bay inn 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Cedar City 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Woods of Charleston 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4769-6191-OUTLETS 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE S-K Ranch Management, LLC - Escalon 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Top O The Morn Farms 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senters 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: 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.