Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · North Carolina

33 Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~187 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

33 Hickory runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

33 Hickory: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

33 Hickory safety composite

33 Hickory scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−0.6

2016→2017

33 Hickory injury rate improved

33 Hickory's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #14/22
  • PHOTO Marysville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marysville (0.0 TCR gap)

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33 Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 33 Hickory averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

33 Hickory TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=3 · BLS 3.3

Where 33 Hickory falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 22 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in North Carolina.

33 Hickory (187 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 33 Hickory
33 Hickory (187 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

33 Hickory has more employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2017 3.0 2.0 5 1 0
2016 3.6 1.6 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · NC · Hickory

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing 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 Marysville 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arclin - Hayward 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bancroft Bag 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elizabeth Novolex Plant 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Concrete Products 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sears Contract, Inc. - Raleigh 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Snuff Company - Taylor Brothers 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnhardt Manufacturing Company 187 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 Bellowstech 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CG014 - Michigan 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland E68 Main Building (Ohcle) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Supply 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dover (Nhdov) 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evansville (Ineva) 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Rose Herbs 187 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZ.TEMPE.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 187 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: 2017, 2016. 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.