Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling · North Carolina

Bumgarner Oil - Main

Hickory, NC · ~100 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bumgarner Oil - Main runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade A.

Bumgarner Oil - Main: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bumgarner Oil - Main safety composite

Bumgarner Oil - Main scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−5.1

2020→2024

Bumgarner Oil - Main injury rate improved

Bumgarner Oil - Main's TCR fell 5.1 from 5.1 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO SUPERIOR PLUS - 3315
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SUPERIOR PLUS - 3315 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bumgarner Oil - Main in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bumgarner Oil - Main averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Bumgarner Oil - Main TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Bumgarner Oil - Main falls in its industry

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) deale employers in North Carolina.

Bumgarner Oil - Main (100 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100120 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bumgarner Oil - Main
Bumgarner Oil - Main (100 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Bumgarner Oil - Main has more employees than the Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.1 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · NC · Hickory

366 Fuel oil (i.e., heating) dealers, direct selling 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 SUPERIOR PLUS - 3315 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20001-DRC-RUNNING HILL ROAD 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - Houston TX 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7000-DRC-MILLINOCKET 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Egg Company INC 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG CLT 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Raleigh 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE WIMCO Corp. 100 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 2019135 - East Campus Bldg 3 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 031-KERMIT 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Raymond - Northern California, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2311 Martins Supermarket 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Clinic Lakewood 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bastian Robotics 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCauley 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bel Air Hyundai 100 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, 2020. 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.