Mail and Parcel Delivery · North Carolina

363560-Hickory Po

Hickory, NC · ~129 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

363560-Hickory Po runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade C.

363560-Hickory Po: 4.9 TCR = 108% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

363560-Hickory Po safety composite

363560-Hickory Po scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Rising injury rate

363560-Hickory Po: 6.2 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2022

363560-Hickory Po's TCR rose 0.4 from 6.2 in 2017 to 6.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 108% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #151/422
  • PHOTO BEAR CREEK_1354319
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEAR CREEK_1354319 (0.0 TCR gap)

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363560-Hickory Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 363560-Hickory Po averages 4.9 TCR (108% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

363560-Hickory Po TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where 363560-Hickory Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #151 safest of 422 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in North Carolina.

363560-Hickory Po (129 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 363560-Hickory Po
363560-Hickory Po (129 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

363560-Hickory Po has more employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 6.6 5.8 3 5 0
2021 2.9 2.2 3 1 0
2020 4.3 3.4 5 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 4 0 0
2018 5.9 4.2 7 0 0
2017 6.2 6.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · NC · Hickory

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 BEAR CREEK_1354319 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PARKCHESTER_1376827 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JEROME STATION_1368404 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BELLMORE_1354551 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithfarms 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Everest Textile USA LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amcor Rigid Plastics 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE 511 Leland 129 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 ISD 129 Montevideo - Sanford Education Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 075584-Lit-Ken Caryl Br 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 057488-Stanton Po 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 052748-Fontana Po 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 114403-Jax-Baymeadows Ddc 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 510348-Ashburn Va Po 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 114920-Lakeland Fl Po 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 418213-Pittsburgh Insp Svc Division 129 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.