Public School District · South Carolina

West Ashley High

Charleston, SC · ~221 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Ashley High runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Public School District workplace, earning a grade F.

West Ashley High: 2.8 TCR = 202% of Public School District BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Ashley High safety composite

West Ashley High scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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)
C 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

West Ashley High: 1.5 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2024

West Ashley High's TCR rose 2.7 from 1.5 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 2.8 · 202% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #35/129
  • PHOTO ISD 16 Spring Lake P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISD 16 Spring Lake Park, WWIS - Westwood Inter. School (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Ashley High in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Ashley High averages 2.8 TCR (202% of the Public School District BLS benchmark).

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

West Ashley High TCR series: 2023=1.5 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 1.4

Where West Ashley High falls in its industry

3,374 Public School District establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 129 Public School District employers in South Carolina.

West Ashley High (221 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate West Ashley High
West Ashley High (221 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

West Ashley High has more employees than the Public School District median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.2 3.5 6 0 0
2023 1.5 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · SC · Charleston

3,374 Public School District employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 341 employers in Charleston, 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 ISD 16 Spring Lake Park, WWIS - Westwood Inter. School 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Military & Veterans Affairs (10) 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairview Community Center 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterford Public Schools - Clark Lane Middle School 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lynches River Contracting Inc 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suminoe Textile America 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sopakco 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken Pendleton Plant 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University Hospital Authority 8,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medical University of South Carolina 5,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC-03 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1,790 FTE
NAT-TCR LaPlace 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Iron City Express 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Renewal, Inc. - 339 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecogreen Solutions Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Williamsport Plant 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stafford Springs 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blessed Harvesting, Inc. 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE 13-BONSALL 221 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.