Employer · North Carolina

C470 Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~116 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C470 Hickory runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

C470 Hickory: 3.9 TCR = 178% of industry BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C470 Hickory safety composite

C470 Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−3.1

2018→2024

C470 Hickory injury rate improved

C470 Hickory's TCR fell 3.1 from 8.2 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #20/46
  • PHOTO 2007 - Eureka
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2007 - Eureka (0.0 TCR gap)

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C470 Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C470 Hickory averages 3.9 TCR (178% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

C470 Hickory TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where C470 Hickory falls in its industry

1,278 industry establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #20 safest of 46 industry employers in North Carolina.

C470 Hickory (116 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 C470 Hickory
C470 Hickory (116 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

C470 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
2024 5.2 1.7 6 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2021 5.3 3.0 7 0 0
2020 4.2 0.0 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.2 0.9 9 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 2007 - Eureka 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LADSON SC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY - Long Island SALES 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TULLAHOMA TN 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carolina Egg Companies 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE CE Holt Refrigeration 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Container 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4301 Waterleaf 116 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 JWright 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2007 - Eureka 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowell Corporation 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Walnut Creek Foods Manufacturing 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Associated Finishing Inc. 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison Beach Hotel 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott and Reid General Contractors 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kwik Trip Bread and Bun Bakery 979 116 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, 2019, 2018. 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.