Self-service carwash · North Carolina

315 - Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

315 - Hickory runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Self-service carwash workplace, earning a grade F.

315 - Hickory: 6.4 TCR = 306% of Self-service carwash BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

315 - Hickory safety composite

315 - Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−12.8

2023→2024

315 - Hickory injury rate improved

315 - Hickory's TCR fell 12.8 from 12.8 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 306% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO TANK TRAILER CLEANIN…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TANK TRAILER CLEANING INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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315 - Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 315 - Hickory averages 6.4 TCR (306% of the Self-service carwash BLS benchmark).

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

315 - Hickory TCR series: 2023=12.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.1

Where 315 - Hickory falls in its industry

237 Self-service carwash establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 22 Self-service carwash employers in North Carolina.

315 - Hickory (18 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 315 - Hickory
315 - Hickory (18 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

315 - Hickory has fewer employees than the Self-service carwash median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 12.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Hickory

237 Self-service carwash 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR TANK TRAILER CLEANING INC 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blanco 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signal Butte 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Pride Car Wash, Inc-Mission Car Wash 2 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 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 Njlaw - Lawnside 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Msmcc - Mc Comb 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ivy Park at Burbank 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Arlington of Naples 6.4 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.