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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
State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina Columbia Fair organizers with facilit D 4.7
KJ's Market #616 Aynor Grocery stores D 4.7
Bishopville Plant Bishopville Healthcare laundry processin F 4.7
Greenville 10088 Greenville Plasma Center D 4.7
Wm 511 Sumter Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
1261 - Anderson Anderson - D 4.7
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Bethune, SC Bethune Chicken egg production C 4.7
1808-00030104-05296 Summerville Supermarket D 4.7
Knight's Trucking Summerville General freight trucking, lo C 4.7
Best Dressed Chicken Inc. Ward Chickens, slaughtering and d D 4.7
Amick Farms, LLC Hatchery/FeedMill Monetta Chicken feeds, prepared, man D 4.7
Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Seneca, SC Seneca Awnings, rigid plastics or f D 4.7
WESTMINSTER_1387317 Westminster Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.7
Store 045 Spartanburg Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.7
2980 Charleston Automotive Dealers D 4.7
Prisma Health Tuomey Sumter General medical and surgical B 4.7
6574 Columbia Automotive Parts and Accesso D 4.7
Prisma-Greer Memorial Hospital Greer - D 4.7
Prisma Health Materials Distribution Center Simpsonville GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STOR C 4.7
9215-GSP Greer Ground Handler C 4.7
Chase Greenville Greenville Concrete additive preparatio D 4.7
Sam Carbis Solutions Darlington Darlington Industrial machinery and equ F 4.7
Pelham Medical Center Greer Hospital B 4.7
Cablecraft - St. Matthews, Sc St Matthews Cable, noninsulated wire, ma D 4.7
Fairfield Electric Cooperative, Inc. Blythewood Distribution of electric pow F 4.7
NHC HealthCare, Parklane Columbia Skilled nursing facilities B 4.7
Alkegen Summerville Insulating glass, sealed uni D 4.7
Wm 6887 Greenwood - D 4.7
1808-00020102-05723 Cayce Supermarket D 4.7
2642 Lyman Supermrkts & other grocery s D 4.7
Rock Hill Plant Rock Hill Film, plastics, packaging, m D 4.7
Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission Charleston Community recreation program D 4.7
STR0513 Orangeburg Department stores except dis D 4.7
ENVIROSEP Georgetown Pumps, industrial and commer D 4.7
Westminster Presbyterian Center Inc Rock Hill Continuing care retirement c D 4.7
2687 Greer Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
R+L Carriers - SAV Yemassee - C 4.6
Rock Hill Post Acute Care Center Rock Hill Skilled nursing facilities B 4.6
0752 - Rhv Rock Hill Home Health Care C 4.6
Store 032 Greenville Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.6
Wm 1135 Hartsville Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.6
3338 Spartanburg Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.6
City of Camden Camden Executive offices, federal, D 4.6
Borgers USA Inc Duncan Automobile trimmings, textil C 4.6
Irmo Retail Irmo Home centers, building mater D 4.6
International Knife and Saw, Inc, Florence Saw blades, all types, manuf D 4.6
1146 Lkq Mcallister Motors Cades Motor vehicle parts, used, m F 4.6
Selectric LLC Beaufort Low voltage electrical work D 4.6
Wm 3628 Simpsonville - D 4.6
Unifi Aviation Services : CHS - Charleston SC Charleston Support Activities for Air T C 4.6
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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.