Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives · South Carolina

Whitmire

Whitmire, SC · ~35 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitmire runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitmire: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitmire safety composite

Whitmire scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.4

2016→2024

Whitmire injury rate improved

Whitmire's TCR fell 5.4 from 7.8 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=17.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Whitmire, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Koppers Susquehanna
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koppers Susquehanna (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitmire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitmire averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives BLS benchmark).

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

Whitmire TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=17.9 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Whitmire falls in its industry

183 Treating wood products with cr establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Treating wood products with cr employers in South Carolina.

Whitmire (35 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Whitmire
Whitmire (35 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Whitmire has fewer employees than the Treating wood products with creosote or median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 17.9 11.9 6 0 0
2018 5.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2016 7.8 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · SC · Whitmire

183 Treating wood products with creosote or other preservatives employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 3 employers in Whitmire, 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 Koppers Susquehanna 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cameron 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WA Washougal AWW 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Springs 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conway Service Center and Warehouse 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLORENCE DISTRICT OFFICE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Delivery Operations (Charleston) 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darlington County Water & Sewer Authority 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sea Pro Boats LLC 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piggly Wiggly #190 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Koppers Susquehanna 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln County Egg Farm 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Engineers Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OK 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Monticello 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.E. Jimmy Miller & Son, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE SiteOne Landscape Supply #172 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE State College store 35 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.