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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.

South Carolina grade distribution 7,598 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

South Carolina's average TCR of 4.6 is lower than 79% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
King Construction Services Conway Excavation contractors B 1.7
First Quality Tissue Southeast Anderson Paper mills (except newsprin B 1.7
ACS Manufacturing Abbeville Air cargo containers, light B 1.7
Defender Services, Inc Hopkins Facilities (except computer B 1.7
ACAC of Greenville, Inc. Greenville Athletic club facilities, ph B 1.7
Sodexo at Newberry College Newberry Food Service Contractors B 1.7
618 Florence Supermrkts & other grocery s B 1.7
Transportation : Mauldin - Trans Greenville - B 1.7
Recycled Gray Court (UT1S) Gray Court Skids and pallets, wood or w B 1.7
QSI Dillon Dillon Building cleaning services, A 1.7
Sc Voc Rehab Florence Florence Job training, vocational reh A 1.7
Furman - Catering Greenville - B 1.7
Tidelands Health Rehabilitation Hospital at Little River Little River Cancer hospitals A 1.7
Prisma Health Equipped for Life Greenville General warehousing and stor A 1.7
Store 0470 Rock Hill General Merchandise Stores B 1.7
562 - Lexington Lexington - B 1.7
Sodexo at School Dist. of Oconee County Walhalla Food Service Contractors B 1.7
Quality Beverage LLC Ladson SC Ladson General-line groceries merch B 1.7
Ross store 708 Bluffton Retail Store B 1.7
Akebono Brake West Columbia Calipers, brake, automotive, A 1.7
Ridgeland Ridgeland Distribution of electric pow D 1.7
Broad River Correctional Institution Columbia Correctional institutions B 1.7
Store 1775 Moncks Corner Supermarkets and other groce B 1.7
United Forest Products Inc. Spartanburg Sawdust and shavings (i.e., B 1.7
2358 Lowe S of Gaffney Sc Gaffney Homecenter B 1.7
Wm 2348 Charleston - B 1.7
Bennett Equipment & Supply Co., Inc. Piedmont Heavy construction equipment D 1.7
Gates Greenville Greenville Hoses, reinforced, rubber or B 1.7
MAGNA Greer Air filters, automotive, tru A 1.7
G. Campbell Construction Co Inc Rock Hill Distribution of natural gas D 1.7
Headquarter's Office Saint Matthews Electric power distribution D 1.7
Florence Concrete Products, Inc. Sumter Plant Sumter Concrete products, precast ( B 1.7
Magnolia Finishing Plant Blacksburg Bleaching textile products, B 1.7
Dillon Plant Dillon Poultry Processing B 1.7
Charleston Hanahan - A 1.7
KJ's Market #610 Lancaster Grocery stores A 1.7
Paddock Equipment Company, Inc Rock Hill Gutters, sheet metal (except B 1.7
South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Protective Services Blythewood State police B 1.7
Electrolux-Anderson Anderson - A 1.7
Store 1767 Greenville Supermarkets and other groce A 1.7
Angel Oak Elementary Johns Island Public School District D 1.7
PSI Molded Plastics Inc. Myrtle Beach Awnings, rigid plastics or f B 1.7
USA SC Summerville Plant Summerville Paint and coating manufactur B 1.7
02687 - Store # 2687 Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach Grocery Stores A 1.7
Robert Bosch LLC - Summerville Warehouse Summerville General warehousing and stor A 1.7
Clemson University Clemson Academies, college or univer D 1.7
Thomas Brothers Nursery & Landscaping Co., Inc. Greenville Plant and shrub maintenance A 1.7
Serco - Charleston,SC North Charleston Ship Building and Repairing B 1.7
Piggly Wiggly 183 Surfside Beach Grocery stores A 1.7
Cornerstone Building Brands Gaffney Shutters, plastics, manufact B 1.7
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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.

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.