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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 43 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 642 | Cheraw | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| Charleston | Mount Pleasant | Bonded warehousing, general | C | 5.3 |
| Grand Strand Rehab and Nursing Center | Myrtle Beach | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.3 |
| KENTWOOL | Pickens | Wool spun yarn made from pur | D | 5.3 |
| Carotell Paperboard | Taylors | Paperboard mills | D | 5.3 |
| C453 Greenville | Piedmont | - | F | 5.3 |
| Cape Romain Contractors | Wando | Marine construction | D | 5.3 |
| Lila Doyle Post Acute | Seneca | Homes for the elderly with n | C | 5.3 |
| 93 | Columbia | Drywall and Insulation Contr | D | 5.3 |
| 3367 | North Charleston | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| St. Stephen IGA #658 | St. Stephen | Grocery stores | D | 5.3 |
| Rochling Automotive USA LLP (Duncan, SC) | Duncan | Motor vehicle moldings and e | D | 5.3 |
| The Sea Pines Resort | Hilton Head | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Summerville Medical Center | Summerville | General medical and surgical | B | 5.3 |
| RENK Corporation | Duncan | Industrial supplies (except | F | 5.3 |
| 4400 - Columbia, SC | Columbia | - | D | 5.3 |
| 1625 | Greenville | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 5.3 |
| HTI @ Pendleton | Pendleton | Tires, plastics, manufacturi | D | 5.3 |
| Ufp Nac, LLC | Rowesville | Boxes, wood, manufacturing | D | 5.3 |
| Protego (USA), Inc. | Ladson | Angle valves, industrial-typ | D | 5.3 |
| Columbia C | Columbia | Pest Control | C | 5.3 |
| 01047 - Store # 1047 N Myrtle Bch | North Myrtle Beach | Grocery Stores | D | 5.3 |
| 4186-00774 | Lexington | All Other General Merchandis | D | 5.3 |
| Sims Bark Bowman | Bowman | Sawdust and shavings (i.e., | D | 5.3 |
| Shore Crest Vacation Villas | North Myrtle Beach | Housekeeping services (i.e., | C | 5.3 |
| Southern Concrete | Anderson | Curbs and street gutters, hi | D | 5.3 |
| Greenville County Detention | Greenville | Correctional institutions | D | 5.3 |
| SC Voc Rehab Aiken | Aiken | Job training, vocational reh | D | 5.3 |
| NHC Healthcare North Augusta | North Augusta | Nursing homes | C | 5.3 |
| Chester Engineered Wood | Chester | Woodproducts Manufacturing | D | 5.3 |
| Menardi LLC | Trenton | Air purification equipment, | D | 5.3 |
| 1105 Anderson | Anderson | Home Centers | D | 5.3 |
| 00018w Anderson | Williamston | General Warehousing and Stor | C | 5.3 |
| Store 015 | Gaffney | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Wm 6463 | Anderson | - | D | 5.3 |
| 6463 | Anderson | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| C.M. Tucker Lumber Companies, LLC | Pageland | Pressure treated lumber made | D | 5.3 |
| NCS | North Charleston | Freight Transportation | C | 5.2 |
| Marshall Pickens Hospital | Greenville | PSYCHIATRIC AND SUBSTANCE AB | D | 5.2 |
| TCI Charleston | North Charleston | Glazing contractors | D | 5.2 |
| GREENVILLE_1441854 | Greenville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| Palmetto Goodwill Services | North Charleston | Vocational rehabilitation ag | D | 5.2 |
| Cross Creek Medical Campus | Greenville | GENERAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL | B | 5.2 |
| Mountain View Family Practice | Greer | Physicians' (except mental h | D | 5.2 |
| 1298 - Hilton Head | Bluffton | Discount Department Stores | D | 5.2 |
| NHC Healthcare, Bluffton | Bluffton | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.2 |
| Langston Place | Clinton | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | D | 5.2 |
| AHD | Greenville | Supplier of automotive fuel | C | 5.2 |
| 2104 | North Charleston | Automotive Parts and Accesso | D | 5.2 |
| 1223 - BELFOR Myrtle Beach SC | Myrtle Beach | Fire and flood restoration o | D | 5.2 |
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.