Grocery Stores · North Carolina

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory

Name: 00638 - Store # 638 Hickory Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade A.

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory safety composite

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

DART 2.6 DART
RANK #216/1627
PHOTO ABS-0017-0016-03941 …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABS-0017-0016-03941 FAC-03941-GLENDALE-AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.3
ABS-0017-0016-

1.3
2603-26030016

1.3
2050-20500002-

1.3
Grocery Outlet

1.3

What this shows 00638 - Store # 638 Hickory averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 00638 - Store # 638 Hickory falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #216 safest of 1627 Grocery Stores employers in North Carolina.

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory (58 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

00638 - Store # 638 Hickory has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2023	2.6	2.6	1	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Hickory

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	ABS-0017-0016-03941 FAC-03941-GLENDALE-AZ	GLENDALE, AZ	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2603-26030016	BAKERSFIELD, CA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2050-20500002-320	DALY CITY, CA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Grocery Outlet of Lompoc	LOMPOC, CA	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Brookdale Lawndale Park	GREENSBORO	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	STANCIL PAINTING AND SERVICES, INC.	CONCORD	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Danby House	WINSTON SALEM	58 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Building Center Inc - Gastonia	GASTONIA	58 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	Escalon Premier Brands	Escalon, CA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Classic Carriers	Versailles, OH	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	RTI-Martinsville	Martinsville, VA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Amalagamated Sugar Company LLC	Nyssa, OR	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rohrback Cosasco Systems, Inc	Santa Fe Springs, CA	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sonju Two Harbors, LLC.	Two Harbors, MN	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jet Processing	Phoenix, AZ	58 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CourierNet Inc	Marietta, GA	58 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.