Employer · North Carolina

470 Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~88 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

470 Hickory runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

470 Hickory: 3.5 TCR = 159% of industry BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

470 Hickory safety composite

470 Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

470 Hickory: 2.8 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2017

470 Hickory's TCR rose 1.4 from 2.8 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #18/46
  • PHOTO General Pet - Dayton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Pet - Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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470 Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 470 Hickory averages 3.5 TCR (159% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

470 Hickory TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where 470 Hickory falls in its industry

1,278 industry establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 46 industry employers in North Carolina.

470 Hickory (88 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 470 Hickory
470 Hickory (88 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

470 Hickory has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2016 2.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NC · Hickory

1,278 industry 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 General Pet - Dayton 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAB 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northlake IL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. of Topeka 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayliss Boatworks Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 3434 - I-40_I-77 Statesville, NC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Young and McQueen Grading Company Inc 88 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 LiDestri Lee Rd. South 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Health-First Coast, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4729-00 Cardinal/Houston, TX 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Circle Transportation Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwest 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Kimberling City LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Joplin LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Grove Health Center 88 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.