Mount Pleasant, SC

South Carolina operates its own OSHA-approved State Plan covering private-sector workplaces, so most enforcement in Mount Pleasant, SC is state-run. The federal OSHA records on this page cover only workplaces under federal jurisdiction — they are not a complete picture of workplace safety in the city.

Employers with the most severe injuries in Mount Pleasant

Example incidents

• Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2024-10-06 · Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle

  An employee was descending a vertical ladder on a container ship when he fell 12 feet to the platform below. The employee sustained fractures to ribs on his left side, his right knee, and his right foot, as well as lacerations and scrapes to both knees.

• Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2022-07-31 · Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.

  A crane was setting a shipping container in place 40 feet above a deck. A twist-lock (weighing 11.5 lbs.) fell off the container and struck an employee standing on the deck, hitting the top of his hard hat. He suffered a skull fracture and was hospitalized.

• Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2022-07-14 · Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part

  A truck driver was waiting at a freight terminal to receive an intermodal shipping container coming off a vessel. The crane lifting the container failed and the container fell several feet into the back of the flatbed truck. The driver was jostled in the cab, resulting in back pain and loss of feeling in his toes.

• Charleston Stevedoring Company, LLC MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2022-01-29 · Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, unspecified

  An employee driving a utility tractor rig vehicle (PIT) in the container yard collided with a light pole. The employee sustained a fractured sternum (from striking the steering column) and lacerations to his lip, face, and tongue (from the broken windshield).

• Ceres Marine Terminals, Inc. MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2018-01-22 · Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c.

  An employee was driving a yard hostler when he crashed into a terminal light post with a concrete base. He fractured his leg and was hospitalized.

• SSA Cooper MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA · 2017-10-12 · Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment

  During loading operations, an employee's right hand was caught between a twist lock on a container and the flatbed of a truck, lacerating the skin between his thumb and index finger and crushing his middle finger. He was hospitalized.

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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.