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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
AFS Logistics- Greenville Office Greenville Freight forwarding A 0.7
Corporate/ATC Fort Mill Bearings (e.g., camshaft, cr A 0.7
Sodexo at Medical University Hospital Charleston Food Service Contractors A 0.7
Lennar - Coastal Carolinas (Charleston) Charleston Housing construction, for-sa A 0.7
SC Voc Rehab Oconee Seneca Job training, vocational reh A 0.7
MAU @ Kimberly Clark Beech Island Beech Island Temporary Help Services A 0.7
Continental Tire the Americas, LLC Fort Mill Headquarters Buildings A 0.7
GLOENCO South Carolina Greenville Machine shops A 0.7
Pure Fishing - Columbia Columbia Fishing tackle and equipment A 0.7
Storeroom Operations Center (Columbia) Cayce Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
CF Gray Court Gray Court Vegetables, cut or peeled, f A 0.7
Electric Operations Building North Charleston Electric Power Distribution B 0.7
Cushman Plant Williamston Yarn throwing, twisting, and A 0.7
Founders National Golf, LLC Myrtle Beach Golf courses (except miniatu A 0.7
Phillips Industrial Services Corporation Goose Creek Ship painting contractors A 0.7
4263-20536 Charleston Hotels A 0.7
Dan-Kel Concrete Cutting Longs Concrete sawing and drilling A 0.7
Peacock Management Group LLC Hardeeville New car dealers A 0.7
Michelin North American Headquarters Greenville Corporate offices C 0.7
Schneider Electric - Columbia SC Hopkins Switchgear and switchgear ac A 0.7
Honda of SC - 13152 Timmonsville Building cleaning services, A 0.7
Middling Cotton Co., Inc. St. Matthews Cotton ginning A 0.7
Ortec - Piedmont Piedmont Carbon organic compounds, no A 0.7
Greenville Division Greenville For-sale builders (i.e., bui A 0.7
Tcw Inc-Spa Inman General freight trucking, lo A 0.7
McLeod Seacoast Little River - A 0.7
Rock Hill 10130 Rock Hill Plasma Center A 0.7
Baker Transportation Lake City General freight trucking, lo A 0.7
USA Myrtle Beach 1100 Jet Port Rd Myrtle Beach Rental Car A 0.7
Wabtec Global Services PTC-Field Team Columbia Brakes and parts for railroa A 0.7
Kenan Transport 50073 Spartanburg Spartanburg Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi A 0.7
USA Bennettsville SC Oak River South Bennettsville Yarn A 0.7
Greenville Resource Center PNG Greenville Natural Gas Distribution B 0.7
Yeargin Potter Smith Construction Inc Greenville Commercial building construc A 0.7
Greer Operations Center Duncan Electric Power Distribution B 0.7
Blythewood Crew Quarters Columbia Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
Nestle USA, Inc. Gaffney Frozen food entrees (except A 0.7
Prosperity SC Prosperity Paper and Paperboard A 0.7
02239 - Store 02239 Surfside Beach Surfside Beach Grocery Stores A 0.7
Dewey Inman Natural nonfood coloring, ma A 0.7
Otis Elevator Company-Columbia West Columbia ElevatorEscalator-Installati A 0.7
Plastic Omnium Anderson Wipers, windshield, automoti A 0.7
Hospitality, LLC Charleston Hotels (except casino hotels A 0.7
4527 Cowpens Paper Mill Cowpens Papermill A 0.7
USA Bennettsville SC Oak River North Bennettsville Yarn A 0.7
Springs Memorial Hospital Lancaster - A 0.7
Unit # 0695 Greenville Retail A 0.7
DOMTAR Bennettsville Industrial equipment and mac A 0.7
Lexington District Office Lexington Electric Power Distribution B 0.7
Sodexo at Medical University of Sc Charleston Building Cleaning and Maint A 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.