TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.6 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
South Carolina workplace safety
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).
- 7,610
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 128,117
- Injuries (all)
- 126
- Fatalities (all)
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.
- 4.6
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 6,633
- rated employers
- 7,610
- all reporting employers
- 128,117
- recordable injuries (all)
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.
A · 18% B · 14% C · 29% D · 20% F · 19%
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.
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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.
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. 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.
Employers in South Carolina, by injury rate
Page 58 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orangeburg BBU | Orangeburg | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.2 |
| Boysen USA, LLC | Gaffney | Exhaust systems and parts, a | B | 4.2 |
| 1610 | Surfside Beach | Supermrkts & other grocery s | D | 4.2 |
| Carolina Canners Incorporated | Greenville | Baby foods, canned, merchant | D | 4.2 |
| Sloan Charleston | Blacksburg | Pavement, highway, road, str | D | 4.2 |
| Seneca SC Yard | Seneca | Other Building Material Deal | D | 4.2 |
| Lowes Foods #270 | Summerville | Grocery stores | D | 4.2 |
| 1319 - Columbia NE | Columbia | Discount Department Stores | D | 4.2 |
| Conway IGA #625 | Conway | Grocery stores | D | 4.2 |
| North Charleston Sewer District WWTP | Charleston | Collection, treatment, and d | F | 4.2 |
| SC150 Prosperity Plywood | Prosperity | - | D | 4.2 |
| Chs Cst | Charleston | Container trucking services, | C | 4.2 |
| 0539 Lowe S of Mt. Pleasant Sc | Mount Pleasant | Homecenter | D | 4.2 |
| The Place at Shadow Oaks | Aiken | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.2 |
| Tucker Anderson | Anderson | Drywall and related building | D | 4.2 |
| Minghua USA | Greer | Bumpers and bumperettes asse | B | 4.2 |
| Hand Center - Greenville | Greenville | Physicians' (except mental h | C | 4.2 |
| buybuy Baby Columbia | Columbia | retailing childrens items | D | 4.2 |
| Allendale Biomass LLC | Fairfax | Biomass electric power gener | F | 4.2 |
| Covenant Place | Sumter | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 4.2 |
| DMSI Inc. / RHDC | Rock Hill | Temporary staffing services | D | 4.2 |
| Musc Hlth-Lancaster | Lancaster | - | D | 4.2 |
| 747 Summerville | Summerville | Department Store | D | 4.2 |
| Store 0576 | Greenville | Supermarkets and other groce | D | 4.2 |
| Strategy Plastics | Williamston | Motor vehicle moldings and e | D | 4.2 |
| National Healthcare Corporation | Columbia | Nursing homes | B | 4.2 |
| Anderson | Star | Warehousing and storage, gen | B | 4.2 |
| 1183 | West Columbia | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.2 |
| Marion County Administration | Marion | Executive and legislative of | D | 4.2 |
| Koppers Florence | Florence | Crossties, treating | D | 4.2 |
| HGI Spartanburg | Spartanburg | Acetylene manufacturing | D | 4.2 |
| Store 1714 | Bluffton | Supermarkets and other groce | D | 4.2 |
| Event Link (BMW East PC) | Greer | Motorcycle racetracks | D | 4.2 |
| 3317 Lowe S of N. Mt. Pleasant Sc | Mount Pleasant | Homecenter | D | 4.2 |
| Carolina Heating Services,Inc. of Greenville | Piedmont | Plumbing,Heating,and Air-Con | D | 4.2 |
| Charleston Sc - 277 | North Charleston | Industrial Launderers | D | 4.2 |
| Carolina International Trucks | Columbia | Truck tractors, road, mercha | D | 4.2 |
| Cregger Company | Irmo | Wholesale | D | 4.2 |
| It Customer Support Office | North Charleston | Public School District | F | 4.2 |
| 01280 - Store # 1280 Columbia | Columbia | Grocery Stores | D | 4.2 |
| C501 Marion | Marion | - | D | 4.2 |
| Home Health Roper Mt | Greenville | Home health agencies | C | 4.2 |
| C460 Skyland | Arden | - | D | 4.2 |
| Bethea Retirement Community | Darlington | Retirement homes with nursin | B | 4.2 |
| Palmetto Residential Electric LLC/Greenville Warehouse | Greenville | Electrical, electrical wirin | D | 4.2 |
| Administration Building | Spartanburg | School districts, elementary | F | 4.2 |
| Zapp Precision Wire, Inc | Summerville | Barbed and twisted wire made | D | 4.2 |
| 456120-Murrells Inlet Po | Murrells Inlet | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.2 |
| Bt Deloach Building | Hampton | Executive and legislative of | D | 4.2 |
| Walgreens Anderson Distribution Center | Williamston | General warehousing and stor | B | 4.2 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
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.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.6 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,610 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.