Retail Stores · North Carolina

0434 - Hickory, Nc

Hickory, NC · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0434 - Hickory, Nc runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0434 - Hickory, Nc: 10.7 TCR = 316% of Retail Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0434 - Hickory, Nc safety composite

0434 - Hickory, Nc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−44.6

2016→2018

0434 - Hickory, Nc injury rate improved

0434 - Hickory, Nc's TCR fell 44.6 from 51.7 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 51.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=51.7 · 2017=14.4 · 2018=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 316% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #24/40
  • PHOTO OGDENSBURG, NY #03375
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OGDENSBURG, NY #03375 (0.0 TCR gap)

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0434 - Hickory, Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0434 - Hickory, Nc averages 10.7 TCR (316% of the Retail Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0434 - Hickory, Nc TCR series: 2016=51.7 · 2017=14.4 · 2018=7.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0434 - Hickory, Nc falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Stores establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 40 Retail Stores employers in North Carolina.

0434 - Hickory, Nc (23 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 0434 - Hickory, Nc
0434 - Hickory, Nc (23 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

0434 - Hickory, Nc has more employees than the Retail Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2018 7.1 7.1 1 0 0
2017 14.4 14.4 2 0 0
2016 51.7 51.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NC · Hickory

1,493 Retail 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR OGDENSBURG, NY #03375 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jerrys Do It Best Hardware St.Louis Park - 5213 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0408 - BUTLER, PA 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPRINGFIELD, OH #03000 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 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 Nashua (Nhnas) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver (Cocmr) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice Home Care 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 367 ABC Supply Co., Inc 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0407 - Madison Heights, Mi 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0493 - Webster, Tx 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0378 - Houston-Federal, Tx 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0376 - Centereach, Ny 23 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.