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South Carolina workplace safety
How 7,610 OSHA-reporting employers across South Carolina compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 7,610
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 128,117
- Injuries
- 126
- Fatalities
The state picture
South Carolina's reporting employers average 4.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7,610
- employers reporting
- 128,117
- recordable injuries
- 126
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
19% of South Carolina's reporting establishments earn an F and 18% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where South Carolina ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRSouth Carolina's average TCR of 4.6 is lower than 79% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, South Carolina is #12 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #44 of 54, a 32-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How South Carolina Workplaces Compare
South Carolina hosts 7,610 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this South Carolina cohort, workers have logged 128,117 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 126 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in South Carolina, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in South Carolina, by injury rate
Page 103 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Senior Living of Anderson | Anderson | Retirement communities, cont | A | 1.8 |
| Flint Group NA Beaufort, SC | Beaufort | Printing inks manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| Store 0074 Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant | Department stores (except di | B | 1.8 |
| National Wild Turkey Federation | Edgefield | Animal rights organizations | C | 1.8 |
| Custom Ecology, Inc-Holly Hill | Holly Hill | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.8 |
| Beaufort County Exterminators LLC dba Hilton Head Exterminators | Hilton Head Island | Exterminating services | A | 1.8 |
| Charleston Store #1902 | N Charleston | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | B | 1.8 |
| Maddox Industrial Transformer-303B Greer Dr.. | Simpsonville | Distribution transformers, e | B | 1.8 |
| Greenville SC Branch | Greenville | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.8 |
| M. B. Kahn Kahn Corporation Division | Columbia | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.8 |
| 1473 - Greer | Greer | - | B | 1.8 |
| 1511 | Chapin | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 1.8 |
| Advanced Professional Services LLC | Spartanburg | 561320: Temporary Help Servi | B | 1.8 |
| Ross store 1736 | North Myrtle Beach | Retail Store | B | 1.8 |
| Greenville (GVL) 5002 | Greenville | underground utility locating | B | 1.8 |
| Zeus Aiken | Aiken | Casings, sausage, nonrigid p | B | 1.8 |
| Orders Services LLC | Lexington | Fiber optic cable transmissi | B | 1.8 |
| Silgan Containers Lancaster | Lancaster | Lids and ends, can, light ga | B | 1.8 |
| Roll Technology Corporation | Greenville | Anodizing metals and metal p | B | 1.8 |
| 5036_11611 | West Columbia | - | C | 1.8 |
| Immunotek Biocenters, LLC - Florence, SC | Florence | Plasmapheresis centers | A | 1.8 |
| Unit #0089 | Rock Hill | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| Hubbell Power Systems - Aiken | Aiken | Insulators, electrical (exce | B | 1.8 |
| Hanahan Middle School | Hanahan | Elementary and secondary sch | D | 1.8 |
| Saati Americas Corporation | Fountain Inn | Weaving and finishing of bro | B | 1.8 |
| 2932_5683 | Rock Hill | - | B | 1.8 |
| Delta Air Lines CAE | Columbia | Scheduled Air Transportation | A | 1.8 |
| Wateree River Correctional Institution | Rembert | Correctional institutions | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Usmce Mh 2080 | Parris Island | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Columbia Fireflies Columbia Fireflies | Columbia | Baseball Teams Professional | B | 1.8 |
| Tyger River | Union | Ball and Roller Bearing Manu | B | 1.8 |
| E A Sween Company-Hodges | Hodges | Food, prepared, perishable, | A | 1.8 |
| NGDS-D025 | Beaufort | Other Support Activities for | A | 1.8 |
| 1138 Rock Hill | Rock Hill | Department Store | B | 1.8 |
| U.S. Transport, Inc | Greenville | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.8 |
| Wm 3367 | North Charleston | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | B | 1.8 |
| Santa Cruz Nutrionals | Sumter | - | B | 1.8 |
| PPA Industries, Inc | Wellford | Furnace filters manufacturin | B | 1.8 |
| CMC Rebar Columbia | Columbia | Bars, concrete reinforcing, | B | 1.8 |
| CBG, Inc. | Gaston | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | B | 1.8 |
| Ethox Chemicals, LLC | Greenville | Ethylene oxide manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| Aiken County Public Library | Aiken | Lending libraries | F | 1.8 |
| Piggly Wiggly 161 | Florence | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| Sopakco | Bennettsville | Processed meats manufacturin | B | 1.8 |
| RCS Grading | Greer | Grading construction sites | B | 1.8 |
| USA SC Chester Plant | Chester | Plastics Material and Resin | B | 1.8 |
| R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal | Gaston | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.8 |
| The Scotts Company - Chester | Chester | Growing Media Manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| Guardian Industries | Richburg | Flat glass (e.g., float, pla | B | 1.8 |
| 4186-02498 | Sumter | Dollar Stores | B | 1.8 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What South Carolina's safety record means for you
South Carolina averages a TCR of 4.6 - about 1.7× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.