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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 116 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle Finishing | Carlisle | Fabric finishing | A | 1.2 |
| Gerber Childrenswear | Summerville | Apparel trimmings merchant w | B | 1.2 |
| Fort Mill South Carolina Distribution Center | Fort Mill | Warehousing (including forei | A | 1.2 |
| Berkley | Huger | Marine Cargo Handling | A | 1.2 |
| willie sues | Sumter | Family restaurants, full ser | A | 1.2 |
| SC Voc Rehab DDS Lexington | West Columbia | Job training, vocational reh | A | 1.2 |
| 0685 - Chj | Charleston | Home Health Care | A | 1.2 |
| Greenwood Operations Center | Greenwood | Electric Power Distribution | C | 1.2 |
| Simpsonville Operations Center | Simpsonville | Electric Power Distribution | C | 1.2 |
| 01391 - Store # 1391 Columbia | Columbia | Grocery Stores | A | 1.2 |
| 00053 - Store # 53 Columbia | Columbia | Grocery Stores | A | 1.2 |
| Scchs - Charleston | Charleston | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.2 |
| Lodige Greer | Greer | Conveyor system installation | A | 1.2 |
| Greenville SC Yard | Greenville | Other Building Material Deal | A | 1.2 |
| Milliken & Company Dewey Plant | Inman | Surface active agents manufa | A | 1.2 |
| Schneider Electric - Seneca | Seneca | Switchgear and switchgear ac | A | 1.2 |
| Indigo Pines | Hilton Head | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.2 |
| ZF Transmissions Gray Court | Gray Court | Manufacturing | A | 1.2 |
| Gaffney | Gaffney | automotive body paint and in | B | 1.2 |
| Cross High School | Cross | High schools | C | 1.2 |
| 1705 Lowe S of Conway Sc | Conway | Homecenter | A | 1.2 |
| Special Education Department Office | Charleston | Public School District | C | 1.2 |
| Thompson Industrial Services LLC TI43 | Sumter | - | A | 1.2 |
| Parks & Recreation | Blythewood | City and town councils | A | 1.2 |
| Milliken and Company - Cedar Hill Plant | Jonesville | Fabrics (except rug, tire fa | A | 1.2 |
| CMC Steel South Carolina | Cayce | Bars, concrete reinforcing ( | A | 1.2 |
| Sodexo at Tidelands Waccamaw Es | Murrells Inlet | Janitorial Services | A | 1.2 |
| Fishburne Educational Center | Hanahan | School districts, elementary | C | 1.2 |
| D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greenville | Greenville | New Single-Family Housing Co | A | 1.2 |
| Orangeburg Warehouse | Orangeburg | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.2 |
| Yemassee SC Truss | Yemassee | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | A | 1.2 |
| SJ Hamill Construction | Charleston | Pile driving, marine | A | 1.2 |
| 4021-500085900 | Greenwood | Food Services | A | 1.2 |
| Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-Columbia, SC-USA | Columbia | 0 | A | 1.2 |
| Coral Beach Resort | Myrtle Beach | Hotel management services (e | A | 1.2 |
| Symrise - Bushy Park | Goose Creek | Carbon organic compounds, no | A | 1.2 |
| Spartanburg, South Carolina Facility | Spartanburg | Assembly machines manufactur | A | 1.2 |
| Starr Electric Company, Inc Columbia | Columbia | Low voltage electrical work | A | 1.2 |
| Laguna Tools, Inc - South Carolina | West Columbia | General-purpose industrial m | B | 1.2 |
| Pigment Services Inc. | Goose Creek | Pigments (except bone black, | A | 1.2 |
| Flexible Technologies | Abbeville | Plastics and rubber belts an | A | 1.2 |
| Wm 4954 | Ridgeville | - | A | 1.2 |
| Comeback Rentals | Myrtle Beach | General rental centers | C | 1.2 |
| Colgate Palmolive | Hodges | Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liqu | A | 1.2 |
| Electric City Printing | Williamston | ALL printing operations incl | A | 1.2 |
| TK Elevator Columbia | Columbia | Elevator installation conve | A | 1.1 |
| Republic Services of Lee County 4782 | Bishopville | Waste collection services, n | A | 1.1 |
| Center of HOPE of Myrtle Beach | Myrtle Beach | Outpatient treatment centers | A | 1.1 |
| Townville SC Truss | Townville | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | A | 1.1 |
| MasTec Transmission & Substation | Gaffney | Transmission and distributio | A | 1.1 |
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.