State profile · OSHA ITA
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 132 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aflac Group | Columbia | Brokerages, insurance | B | 0.3 |
| UEC Electronics, LLC | Hanahan | Harness assemblies for elect | A | 0.3 |
| CRM Liberty SC | Liberty | Electromedical and Electroth | A | 0.3 |
| Santee Cooper- Winyah | Georgetown | Industrial equipment and mac | A | 0.3 |
| Milliken & Co. Gerrish Plant | Pendleton | Weaving fabrics more than 12 | A | 0.3 |
| Florence SC RC | Florence | Secondary Smelting,Refining, | A | 0.3 |
| Plastic Omnium Clean Energy Systems | Anderson | Gas tanks assembled, automot | A | 0.3 |
| Valmet | Aiken | Rolls and roll coverings, ru | A | 0.3 |
| Hayes & Lunsford Electric, Inc | Greer | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.3 |
| KRA Operation LLC | Prosperity | Dryers, household-type laund | A | 0.3 |
| FORT MILL Corporate Site | Fort Mill | 442299 All Other Home Furnis | A | 0.3 |
| Horry-Georgetown | Myrtle Beach | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.3 |
| Keys Innovative Solutions | Greenville | ALL printing operations incl | A | 0.3 |
| Coastal Structures Main Office | Georgetown | Commercial building construc | A | 0.3 |
| SBS South Carolina (Greenville) | Greenville | Appliances, household-type ( | A | 0.3 |
| Corporate Headquarters Bldg D | Cayce | Managing Office | A | 0.3 |
| Smilemakers - Sha Lane | Spartanburg | Mail-order houses | A | 0.3 |
| MUSC - Ashley River Tower | Charleston | - | A | 0.3 |
| Mar Mac Protective Apparel | Mcbee | Apparel findings and trimmin | A | 0.3 |
| BE&K Building Group | Greenville | Construction management, com | A | 0.3 |
| Palmetto Health Corporate - Parklane | Columbia | Corporate offices | A | 0.3 |
| AVX Corp. - Myrtle Beach | Myrtle Beach | Capacitors, electronic, fixe | A | 0.3 |
| Allied Air Enterprises | Orangeburg | Air-conditioning and warm ai | A | 0.3 |
| Celanese Enoree | Enoree | Vinyl acetate resins manufac | A | 0.3 |
| International Paper - Georgetown Mill | Georgetown | Paper mills (except newsprin | A | 0.2 |
| Magna Mirrors | Duncan | Automotive mirrors, framed, | A | 0.2 |
| Cleland Site Prep, Inc | Bluffton | Dirt moving for construction | A | 0.2 |
| Cleland Constructors, Inc. | Bluffton | Dirt moving for construction | A | 0.2 |
| Atlantic Electric, LLC | North Charleston | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.2 |
| Mc Sales Service | Saint Stephen | Manmade Fabric & Silk Broadw | A | 0.2 |
| Barnwell | Barnwell | - | A | 0.2 |
| ARC Services | Rock Hill | Welding repair services (e.g | A | 0.2 |
| FlexTechAbbeville | Abbeville | Hoses, reinforced, rubber or | A | 0.2 |
| J.H. Hiers Construction | Walterboro | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | A | 0.2 |
| BHI Energy - Renewables | Piedmont | Electric power generation, w | A | 0.2 |
| Prysmian Cables & Systems USA, LLC | Lexington | Fiber optic cable made from | A | 0.2 |
| Greenville Synnex | Greenville | Computer printers merchant w | A | 0.2 |
| VC Summer Station - Unit 1 | Jenkinsville | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.2 |
| SC Voc Rehab DDS Charleston | North Charleston | Job training, vocational reh | A | 0.2 |
| Mundy Maintenance, Services and Operations LLC Job #32005 | Gaston | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.2 |
| CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (FDC) | Greenville | General Line Grocery Merchan | A | 0.2 |
| Cope Generating Plant | Cope | Fossil Fuel Electric Power G | A | 0.2 |
| BT Columbia | Columbia | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | A | 0.2 |
| Corporate Headquarters | Cayce | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.2 |
| 3D Systems - Waterford | Rock Hill | Printing machinery for texti | A | 0.2 |
| Pickens Contracting, Inc. | Greer | Roofing contractors | A | 0.2 |
| SC Regional Office | North Charleston | Custom Computer Programming | A | 0.2 |
| B & C Construction Co., Inc. of Greenville | Taylors | Construction management, wat | A | 0.2 |
| HoneywellSC14 | Greer | Jet propulsion and internal | A | 0.2 |
| Greenville - 6040 Ponders Court | Greenville | Mechanical Power Transmissio | A | 0.2 |
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.