Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · South Carolina

Vaden of Beaufort

Beaufort, SC · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vaden of Beaufort runs at 342% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

Vaden of Beaufort: 11.6 TCR = 342% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vaden of Beaufort safety composite

Vaden of Beaufort scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−18.3

2021→2023

Vaden of Beaufort injury rate improved

Vaden of Beaufort's TCR fell 18.3 from 26.3 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=26.3 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Beaufort, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 342% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #45/46
  • PHOTO Duluth Dodge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duluth Dodge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vaden of Beaufort in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vaden of Beaufort averages 11.6 TCR (342% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Vaden of Beaufort TCR series: 2021=26.3 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.4

Where Vaden of Beaufort falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 46 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in South Carolina.

Vaden of Beaufort (64 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vaden of Beaufort
Vaden of Beaufort (64 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Vaden of Beaufort has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 8.0 4.0 2 0 0
2022 0.5 0.3 2 1 0
2021 26.3 19.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · SC · Beaufort

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 56 employers in Beaufort, 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 Duluth Dodge 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Geneva Chevrolet Buick GMC 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Long Lewis Ford Prattville 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOKES MOTORS INC 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Myrtle Beach Service Center/ Technical Services 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metropolitan Sewer Subdistrict 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reeves Structures 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Companies 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaufort Memorial Hospital 1,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1383 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1383 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7181 276 FTE
NAT-TCR Wakel - Kelso 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Medford #044 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Company 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority - Cerone Division 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beltrami County Law Enforcement Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mi Cocina - 6220 Long Prairie Rd, Flower 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manistique Community Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carey Electric Co 64 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.