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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
Moorhead Brothers Inc Blacksburg Excavating, earthmoving, or A 0.8
Sodexo at Claflin University Facilities Orangeburg Facilities Support Services A 0.8
Ortec - Pendleton Pendleton Carbon organic compounds, no A 0.8
First Quality Print & Packaging LLC Anderson Film, plastics, packaging, m A 0.8
AMAMCO Tool & Supply Co., Inc. Lyman Cutters, metal milling, manu A 0.8
Sodexo at Coker Universityresident Dini Hartsville Food Service Contractors A 0.8
Nutramax Laboratories Inc. Lancaster Vitamins, uncompounded, manu A 0.8
Florence Transmission Headquarters Florence Electric Power Distribution B 0.8
Horizon LLC Ridgeland Plumbing contractors A 0.8
Philip Simmons High School Charleston High schools B 0.8
Insp LLC Indian Land Cable television networks C 0.8
3b2 Solutions LLC Greer Point of sale terminals manu A 0.8
Eastover SC Mill Eastover Pulp and paper (except groun A 0.8
Sylvamo Sumter Paper and paperboard convert A 0.8
MycoWorks SC Union Agriculture research and dev D 0.8
Williams Trucking of the Carolinas LLC Turbeville General freight trucking, lo A 0.8
Thompson Industrial Services, LLC Sumter Cleaning building interiors A 0.8
Sunset Finance Seneca Loan companies (i.e., consum D 0.8
2288-0392 Anderson Structural Pest Control A 0.8
KJ's Market #660 Quinby Grocery stores A 0.7
Wm 2076 Laurens - A 0.7
Vaden Nissan Hilton Head Bluffton Automobile dealers, new only A 0.7
HG555 Columbia Homefurnishings stores A 0.7
Invista MHE LO2 Lugoff Artificial and Synthetic Fib A 0.7
Allison-Smith Co. - South Carolina Moncks Corner Low voltage electrical work A 0.7
Ghs Corporate Plaza Greenville CORPORATE, SUBSIDIARY AND RE C 0.7
Sodexo at Winthrop Uniiversity Rock Hill Food Service Contractors A 0.7
Watsontown Brick Columbia Columbia Bricks (i.e., common, face, A 0.7
Wyman Gordon-Dillon Dillon Aircraft hardware, metal, ma A 0.7
allnex USA, Inc. North Augusta Polyester resins manufacturi A 0.7
Utility Partners of America Greer Electrical, electrical wirin A 0.7
DAK Americas, LLC-Columbia Site Gaston Polyethylene terephathalate A 0.7
Construction Resource Group Union Architectural wall panels, p A 0.7
Florence - 2300 Mechanicsville Road Florence Switchgear and Switchboard A A 0.7
Sharon Plant Sage Automotive Interiors Abbeville Broadwoven fabrics (except r A 0.7
Mundy Maintenance, Services and Operations LLC Job #32330 Moncks Corner Addition, alteration and ren A 0.7
Bridgestone ORR Trenton Other Heavy and Civil Engine A 0.7
Power Delivery Operations (Charleston) Charleston Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
Universal Blastco Sumter Sandblasting, building exter A 0.7
Administration Conway Water supply systems B 0.7
Vulcraft South Carolina Florence Buildings, prefabricated met A 0.7
US - Branch Network : 0332 Greenville Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl A 0.7
Ctr Family Medicine/Car Cardio Greenville OFFICES OF PHYSICIANS (EXCEP A 0.7
Transaxle Manufacturing Of America Rock Hill Transaxles, automotive, truc A 0.7
Robert Bosch LLC Charleston Fuel injection systems and p A 0.7
Contec, INC. - Wingo Park Spartanburg Disinfectants, household-typ A 0.7
BAE Systems Inc. Aiken Armored military vehicles (e A 0.7
SC.CLEMS.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc Clemson Office Equipment A 0.7
2204 Fort Mill Supermrkts & other grocery s A 0.7
AstenJohnson Charleston - Corporate Charleston Corporate offices C 0.7
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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.