TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.6 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
How 7,610 OSHA-reporting employers across South Carolina compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 6,633 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.6 avg TCR
South Carolina vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
7,610 24th of 54 higher than 30 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
South Carolina's 6,633 rated reporting employers average 4.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.7 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 7,610 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
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.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, South Carolina is #12 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 6,633-employer subset), 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 on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 6,633 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg 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 |
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for South Carolina: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.6 here).
Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,610 here).
Look up a South Carolina employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.