Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · South Carolina

Velvet Drive Transmissions

Liberty, SC · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Velvet Drive Transmissions runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Velvet Drive Transmissions: 4.8 TCR = 89% of Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Velvet Drive Transmissions safety composite

Velvet Drive Transmissions scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Velvet Drive Transmissions: 2.7 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Velvet Drive Transmissions's TCR rose 4.2 from 2.7 in 2023 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336350 · Liberty, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO ATC Drivetrain Engine
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATC Drivetrain Engine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Velvet Drive Transmissions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Velvet Drive Transmissions averages 4.8 TCR (89% of the Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Velvet Drive Transmissions TCR series: 2023=2.7 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 5.4

Where Velvet Drive Transmissions falls in its industry

320 Transmissions and parts, autom establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Transmissions and parts, autom employers in South Carolina.

Velvet Drive Transmissions (54 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Velvet Drive Transmissions
Velvet Drive Transmissions (54 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 200 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Velvet Drive Transmissions has fewer employees than the Transmissions and parts, automotive, tru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 6.9 0.0 3 0 0
2023 2.7 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336350 · SC · Liberty

320 Transmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Liberty, 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 ATC Drivetrain Engine 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CON 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATLANTA GEAR & AXLE INC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tsuda USA Corporation 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Don Moorhead Construction, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Charleston 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE KENTWOOL 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA SC Summerville Plant 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reliable Automatic Sprinkler - South Carolina 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Liberty 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Waffle Company 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Liberty SC 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Cashwa Distributing Company/ Kearney 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shell Fab & Design 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohakr - Akron 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Vintners 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stevensville 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE GHEMM Company 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exact Stormwater Management, LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elcon Precision, LLC 54 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. 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.