Outdoor Amusement Company · South Carolina

Western Carolina State Fair

Aiken, SC · ~70 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Carolina State Fair runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Outdoor Amusement Company workplace, earning a grade F.

Western Carolina State Fair: 8.9 TCR = 288% of Outdoor Amusement Company BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Carolina State Fair safety composite

Western Carolina State Fair scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 35.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Western Carolina State Fair: 0.0 → 35.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 35.7 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2019

Western Carolina State Fair's TCR rose 35.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 35.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713990 · Aiken, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 288% of ind

  • DART 35.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Recreation & Parks
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recreation & Parks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Carolina State Fair in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Carolina State Fair averages 8.9 TCR (288% of the Outdoor Amusement Company BLS benchmark).

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

Western Carolina State Fair TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=35.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Western Carolina State Fair falls in its industry

289 Outdoor Amusement Company establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

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 Outdoor Amusement Company employers in South Carolina.

Western Carolina State Fair (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 Western Carolina State Fair
Western Carolina State Fair (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Western Carolina State Fair has more employees than the Outdoor Amusement Company median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 35.7 35.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713990 · SC · Aiken

289 Outdoor Amusement Company employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 106 employers in Aiken, 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 Recreation & Parks 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hocking Hills Canopy Tours 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey State Fairgrounds 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR iFLY Orlando 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Fruit and Vegetable 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Resource Center PNG 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLUMBIA GAS CREW QUARTERS (Cayce Gas) 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ertel Construction - Charleston 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR CB&I AREVA MOX Services 1,649 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-11068000-11068 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-159 916 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atkins Energy America 908 FTE
NAT-TCR Erickson Framing LLC Nevada 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR General Iron 1909 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie City Landing 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR # 1 Cochran Parts Warehouse 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coastal Empire Fair 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE KLS Komatsu 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE US IN Elkhart Plant 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Physicians Regional Medical Center 70 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.