Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting - South Carolina

South Carolina has adopted regulations that are nearly identical to the federal OSHA recordkeeping regulations, except that reporting of fatalities and multiple hospitalization incidents.

Click on the following links to view the state and federal regulations regarding injury and illness reporting:

Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting

Citations

South Carolina: South Carolina Code of Regulations, Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Division of Labor, Chapter 71, Article 1 Occupational Safety and Health Regulations

Federal: 29 CFR 1904

Reporting work-related fatalities and hospitalizations (29 CFR 1904.39)

All South Carolina employers must report to the South Carolina OSHA office:

1. All work-related fatalities within 8 hours
2. All work-related inpatient hospitalizations, all amputations and all losses of an eye within 24 hours.

Only fatalities occurring within 30 days of the work-related incident must be reported to SC OSHA. Further, for an in-patient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye, these incidents must be reported to SC OSHA only if they occur within 24 hours of the work-related incident.

Employers should call (803) 896-7672. The number is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

For more information on the state plan, call 803-896-7672.