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 93 of 153| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESP | Laurens | Defoamers and antifoaming ag | B | 2.3 |
| 0433 Lowe S of N.E. Columbia Sc | Columbia | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| Danfoss Power Solutions US | Easley | Control valves, fluid power, | B | 2.3 |
| MAU at Michelin US7 | Lexington | Help supply services | C | 2.3 |
| White Oak Manor Spartanburg | Spartanburg | 623110 Nursing Care Faciliti | A | 2.3 |
| Eaton Hydraulics | Greenwood | Pumps, fluid power, manufact | B | 2.3 |
| Tindall Haul & Erect | Spartanburg | General freight trucking, lo | B | 2.3 |
| Tatum | Tatum | 0 | B | 2.3 |
| Beard Equipment Company of Greenville | Piedmont | Materials handling machinery | C | 2.3 |
| NHC HealthCare, Anderson/LLC | Anderson | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.3 |
| Technica LLC - APS3 | Charleston | Government base facilities o | C | 2.3 |
| Terminix Service, Inc. TSI Commercial 71- 52 | Columbia | Pest Control | B | 2.3 |
| Pepsi Cola of Florence, LLC. | Florence | Bottled water (except water | C | 2.3 |
| Lutheran Family Services - Columbia Office | Columbia | District and regional office | F | 2.3 |
| Ables Landscape Associates Inc. | Hollywood | Landscape care and maintenan | B | 2.3 |
| Ame, Inc. | Fort Mill | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.3 |
| Materials Distribution Center | Simpsonville | GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STOR | A | 2.3 |
| St. Stephen Elementary School | St. Stephen | Elementary schools | D | 2.3 |
| Southern Tank Transport, Inc. | Holly Hill | Dry bulk trucking (except ga | B | 2.3 |
| Schaefffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 2 | Fort Mill | Gasoline engine parts, mecha | A | 2.3 |
| Store 1608 | Simpsonville | Supermarkets and other groce | B | 2.3 |
| STR0299 | North Augusta | Department stores except dis | B | 2.3 |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Columbia, SC | Columbia | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 2.3 |
| Home Office | Myrtle Beach | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.3 |
| 8805 Fab Fours Inc. | Lancaster | Bumpers and bumperettes asse | A | 2.3 |
| SC_Greer_1511 S Batesville Road_33101019 | Greer | wired telecommunication carr | F | 2.3 |
| 4021-000016643 | Columbia | Food Services | B | 2.3 |
| 2584 | Hopkins | Supermrkts & other grocery s | B | 2.3 |
| HTI Lexington 7 | Lexington | Tires, plastics, manufacturi | B | 2.3 |
| Store 0560 Hartville | Hartsville | Department stores (except di | B | 2.3 |
| gilbert iga | Gilbert | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| SC-Allied | Orangeburg | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 2.3 |
| Florence SC Yard | Florence | Other Building Material Deal | B | 2.3 |
| Blevins 11 Greenville | Simpsonville | Wholesale distribution - man | C | 2.3 |
| Metro Columbia Crew Quarters | Cayce | Electric Power Distribution | D | 2.3 |
| Allison-Smith Co. - South Carolina | North Charleston | Low voltage electrical work | C | 2.3 |
| CKS Charleston | Hanahan | Manufacturing | B | 2.3 |
| NAF Aquatics Enterprises LLC | Denmark | Tanks, storage, plastics or | B | 2.3 |
| Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District | Spartanburg | Waste collection, treatment, | D | 2.3 |
| 6921-00475 | Fort Mill | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| Sloan Duncan | Duncan | - | C | 2.3 |
| 1808-00030103-05164 | Hilton Head | Supermarket | B | 2.3 |
| SEW Eurodrive Industrial Gear Motors (IG) | Wellford | Drives, high-speed industria | B | 2.3 |
| AHT Cooling Systems USA, Inc. Main Location | Ladson | Coolers, refrigeration, manu | B | 2.3 |
| Uvclem-Dpp-U Village at Clemson | Central | PROPERTY MANAGEMENT | D | 2.3 |
| Munzing - Clover | Clover | Defoamers and antifoaming ag | B | 2.3 |
| Winebow-SC | North Charleston | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | C | 2.3 |
| GRAD Columbia | Columbia | - | B | 2.3 |
| Diamond Pet Food Processors of South Carolina | Gaston | Animal feed mills, dog and c | B | 2.3 |
| Hunley Park Elementary | North Charleston | Public School District | D | 2.3 |
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.