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 76 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00060 - Store # 60 Camden | Camden | Grocery Stores | C | 3.1 |
| 1808-00030103-05707 | Walterboro | Supermarket | C | 3.1 |
| Timberland Transportation | St. Stephen | School districts, elementary | F | 3.1 |
| Charleston County Aviation Authority (All Establishments) | North Charleston | Airports, civil, operation a | B | 3.1 |
| Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 1 | Fort Mill | Thrust roller bearings manuf | C | 3.1 |
| Store 1485 | Rock Hill | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.1 |
| ECMS (BASF Converse) | Spartanburg | Metal scrap and waste mercha | D | 3.1 |
| Mcleod-Loris Community Hosp | Loris | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.1 |
| PIEDMONT_1377439 | Piedmont | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.1 |
| Lancaster Grove Senior Living | Lancaster | Senior citizens' homes witho | C | 3.1 |
| Myrtle Beach Sc | Myrtle Beach | RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRU | C | 3.1 |
| Greenwood Mills | Greenwood | Textile broadwoven fabrics m | C | 3.1 |
| MacLean Power Systems | Newberry | Hardware, transmission pole | C | 3.1 |
| HG088 | Florence | Homefurnishings stores | C | 3.1 |
| Reaves Inc | Conway | - | B | 3.1 |
| Kershaw Health | Camden | General medical and surgical | A | 3.1 |
| Bob Jones University | Greenville | Colleges, universities, and | F | 3.1 |
| Kedplasma - Rock Hill | Rock Hill | Blood donor stations | C | 3.1 |
| Orangeburg - Cable Plant | Orangeburg | Cable, nonferrous, insulated | C | 3.1 |
| Columbia | Columbia | Street cleaning service | D | 3.1 |
| Bowen's Corner Elementary | Hanahan | Elementary schools | F | 3.1 |
| Store 0563 | Anderson | Supermarkets and other groce | C | 3.1 |
| 1109 Sandhills | Columbia | Home Centers | C | 3.1 |
| Wm 795 | Barnwell | - | C | 3.1 |
| Advanced Labelworx - Anderson, SC | Anderson | Labels, commercial printing | C | 3.1 |
| Suminoe Textile America | Gaffney | Carpets and rugs made from t | C | 3.1 |
| ZF Chassis Systems-Duncan | Duncan | Manufacturing | B | 3.1 |
| Pratt Recycling Duncan,SC. | Duncan | Paper, scrap, merchant whole | D | 3.1 |
| Store 0482 Spartanburg | Spartanburg | Department stores (except di | C | 3.1 |
| JMCOPEINC | Rock Hill | Commercial building construc | C | 3.1 |
| 0736 - Aiken, Sc | Aiken | Retail Stores | C | 3.1 |
| Rock Hill F&C | Rock Hill | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 3.1 |
| Edgefield County Water and Sewer Authority | Edgefield | Water treatment and distribu | F | 3.1 |
| Aiken | Aiken | Valve Manufacturing | C | 3.1 |
| Ferrous | West Columbia | Machine shops | C | 3.1 |
| Fort Mill Logistics Warehouse and Distribution | Fort Mill | Private warehousing and stor | B | 3.1 |
| Baxter Manufacturing LLC | Westminster | Motor vehicle moldings and e | C | 3.1 |
| Poseidon Advanced Materials | Slater | Fiberglass fabrics weaving | C | 3.1 |
| Marrington School of the Arts | Goose Creek | Middle schools | F | 3.1 |
| 2661 | Spartanburg | Supermrkts & other grocery s | C | 3.1 |
| 6795-86042B0699 | North Augusta | General Warehousing and Stor | B | 3.1 |
| S32-CAROL-IRMO | Irmo | AUTOMOTIVE CLUB W/ROAD AND T | F | 3.1 |
| Stevens Towing Co., Inc. Shipyard | Yonges Island | Ship repair done in a shipya | C | 3.1 |
| Reeves Structures | Blacksburg | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.1 |
| M7668 Roper Hospital | Charleston | - | C | 3.1 |
| 625 | Charleston | snack and nonalcoholic bever | C | 3.1 |
| Wm 6873 | Pageland | - | B | 3.1 |
| Florence Place | Florence | CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C | C | 3.1 |
| Cassell Brother Heating & Cooling LLC | Irmo | Heating, ventilation and air | C | 3.1 |
| Beach Cove Resort, Inc. | North Myrtle Beach | Hotels, resort, without casi | C | 3.1 |
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.