Industrial Launderers · North Carolina

017m - Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~52 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

017m - Hickory runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial Launderers workplace, earning a grade B.

017m - Hickory: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Industrial Launderers BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

017m - Hickory safety composite

017m - Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

017m - Hickory: 2.1 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

017m - Hickory's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.1 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812332 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/36
  • PHOTO 336 - SOUTH BEND
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 336 - SOUTH BEND (0.0 TCR gap)

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017m - Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 017m - Hickory averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Industrial Launderers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

017m - Hickory TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.1

Where 017m - Hickory falls in its industry

917 Industrial Launderers establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 36 Industrial Launderers employers in North Carolina.

017m - Hickory (52 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 017m - Hickory
017m - Hickory (52 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1

017m - Hickory has fewer employees than the Industrial Launderers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812332 · NC · Hickory

917 Industrial Launderers 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR 336 - SOUTH BEND 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 530 - LANCASTER 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LITTLE ROCK AR - 817 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12 - SOLON 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sutton Energy Complex CC/CT 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor Investments LLC d/b/a Windsor Homes 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Covington Construction Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR 336 - South Bend 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisonburg Residency 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mustang Machinery Company, LLC dba Mustang Cat 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Crowne Plaza Costa Mesa 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 616 - Montgomery 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 439 - Abilene 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Centenary Univ Dining Hall 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0b61 - North Jersey Fire 52 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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