Employer · South Carolina

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC.

Lake City, SC · ~248 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC.: 6.4 TCR = 290% of industry BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. safety composite

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC.: 5.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2019

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 5.0 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Lake City, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 290% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #18/30
  • PHOTO Foodservice Milwauke…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Milwaukee - 0578 (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. averages 6.4 TCR (290% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. falls in its industry

1,651 industry establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #18 safest of 30 industry employers in South Carolina.

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. (248 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC.
W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. (248 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. has more employees than the industry 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
2019 6.4 6.0 16 0 0
2018 7.8 6.3 21 0 0
2017 5.0 4.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · SC · Lake City

1,651 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lake City, 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 Foodservice Milwaukee - 0578 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco Hampton Roads 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco Raleigh 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Streator 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE IWG High Performance Conductors - Inman 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1493 - Summerville 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6395 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michelin US5 Plant Lexington 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City Community Hospital 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 621 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 621 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Cheyenne 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Truesdale Fleet 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eventide Sheyenne Crossings - Skilled Nursing 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen Keller Company 1, LLC. 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brooks Brothers Group - EN100 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Garden 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3420 E Harmony Rd 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNY Ferry LLC 248 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.