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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
Precision Walls Inc-Greer Greer Drywall contractors C 2.8
Store 202 Spartanburg Supermarkets and Other Groce C 2.8
SP Orian LLC Anderson Weaving rugs, carpets, and m C 2.8
SID HARVEY INDUSTRIES - Andrews/MITCO Andrews Warm air heating equipment m D 2.8
DayBreak Adult Care Services Lexington Home care of elderly, non-me B 2.8
Knight's Companies, Inc. Building 5 Summerville Ready-mix concrete manufactu C 2.8
Cheraw II Cheraw Needle roller bearings manuf C 2.8
Orangeburg Orangeburg Sod farming B 2.8
Store 0067 Columbia Supermarkets and other groce C 2.8
National HealthCare Mauldin Greenville Skilled nursing facilities A 2.8
1110 East Columbia Columbia Home Centers C 2.8
Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Plant 1 Cheraw Needle roller bearings manuf C 2.8
Sun Commodities Piedmont General-line groceries merch D 2.8
Crown Beverages Orangeburg Orangeburg Beverages, alcoholic (except D 2.8
Savannah Place James Island CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT C B 2.8
Dillon Distribution Center Dillon General warehousing and stor A 2.8
Sheraton Broadway Plantation Myrtle Beach Hotels, membership C 2.8
US3 - Spartanburg Plant Spartanburg Tires (e.g., pneumatic, semi C 2.8
Veterans Victory House Walterboro Nursing homes A 2.8
Cancer Centers - Eastside Greenville SPECIALTY (EXCEPT PSYCHIATRI B 2.8
tkSCS - Charleston Ladson General warehousing and stor A 2.8
Roechling Automotive / Duncan Duncan Motor vehicle moldings and e C 2.8
FM Hwy 160 Office Fort Mill Long-distance telephone carr F 2.7
Store 0531 Greer Supermarkets and other groce C 2.7
Nutra Manufacturing - Anderson Facility Anderson Vitamin preparations manufac C 2.7
Ocean Ridge Edisto Island Hotels and Motels C 2.7
STR0560 Hartsville Department stores except dis C 2.7
The Commissioners of Public Works of the City of Charleston Charleston Water treatment and distribu F 2.7
AnMed Home Health Anderson Home health agencies B 2.7
Spartaburg Hospice Spartanburg Health Care Hospice B 2.7
01378 - Store # 1378 Moncks Corner Moncks Corner Grocery Stores C 2.7
Chesterfield Convalescent Center Cheraw healthcare facility B 2.7
Midlands Gilbert Long-distance telephone carr F 2.7
Cullum Mechanical Construction, INC North Charleston Plumbing and heating contrac C 2.7
KJ's Market #604 Clearwater Grocery stores B 2.7
Carolina Poly Westminster Westminster Plastics resins compounding C 2.7
6921-00355 Summerville Supermarkets and Other Groce B 2.7
FLO-ODFL Florence General Freight Trucking, lo B 2.7
Palmetto Health Richland - PSC White Rock White Rock Day care centers, adult B 2.7
Zima Corporation Spartanburg Sc Textile making machinery man C 2.7
Kingstree IGA #675 Kingstree Grocery stores B 2.7
Freudenberg Filtration Technologies - Wellford, South Carolina Wellford Filters, air-conditioner, ma C 2.7
United Refrigeration, Inc. (#900) Rock Hill Refrigeration equipment and D 2.7
Coastal Carolina Research Center N Charleston Physical science research an F 2.7
2548 Lowe S of E. Spartanburg Sc Spartanburg Homecenter B 2.7
Anderson Starr Bonded warehousing, general A 2.7
IPG-Taylors Taylors Fiber tubes made from purcha C 2.7
6921-00087 Mt Pleasant Supermarkets and Other Groce B 2.7
00336 - Store # 336 North Charleston North Charleston Grocery Stores B 2.7
00456 - Store # 456 Georgetown Georgetown Grocery Stores B 2.7
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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.