Discount Department Stores · North Carolina

1181 - Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~175 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1181 - Hickory runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1181 - Hickory: 9.0 TCR = 265% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1181 - Hickory safety composite

1181 - Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.6

2019→2024

1181 - Hickory injury rate improved

1181 - Hickory's TCR fell 3.6 from 5.6 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 26.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.6 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=26.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 265% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #106/113
  • PHOTO 1983 - Brentwood
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1983 - Brentwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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1181 - Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1181 - Hickory averages 9.0 TCR (265% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1181 - Hickory TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2021=7 · 2022=26.4 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.4

Where 1181 - Hickory falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 113 Discount Department Stores employers in North Carolina.

1181 - Hickory (175 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1181 - Hickory
1181 - Hickory (175 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1181 - Hickory has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 4.1 2.0 4 0 0
2022 26.4 25.4 2 25 0
2021 7.0 4.0 2 5 0
2019 5.6 3.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Hickory

4,991 Discount Department 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 1983 - Brentwood 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1864 - Rockaway 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2046 - West St Paul 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0618 - Pueblo 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.H. Griffin Infrastructure LLC 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freedom Industries, Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storr Office Environments, Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horsepower Site Services 175 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 1983 - Brentwood 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lmmm Dallas #36, LTD. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atwood Forest Products 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Greencastle 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1195 - Penfield 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1161 - Williamsburg 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1128 - Beavercreek 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0917 - Snellville 175 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, 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.