Welcome to the South Carolina Second Injury Fund

Our vision is to remain a vital and intricate component of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation system and nationally recognized as the “benchmark” for other like funds.

The Second Injury Fund functions within the South Carolina Workers' Compensation system. The mission of the Fund is twofold:

1. To protect employers from the higher cost of insurance that can occur when an injury combines with a prior disability to result in substantially increased medical or disability costs than the accident alone would have produced. This ensures that an employer is not made to suffer a greater monetary loss or increased insurance costs because they hire or retain an employee who has a disability.

2. To ensure payment of workers' compensation benefits to injured employees whose employers have failed to comply with the coverage provisions of the Workers' Compensation Law.

The Fund is self-sustaining and receives no state appropriation. We are proud that we have been able to serve our State for over three decades and we remain committed to our mission.

William E. Gunn
Director