Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard · North Carolina

Carolina Container Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~136 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carolina Container Hickory runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade B.

Carolina Container Hickory: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carolina Container Hickory safety composite

Carolina Container Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−2.7

2016→2024

Carolina Container Hickory injury rate improved

Carolina Container Hickory's TCR fell 2.7 from 3.3 in 2016 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/61
  • PHOTO Great Northern Corpo…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Northern Corporation - Twin Cities (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carolina Container Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carolina Container Hickory averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Carolina Container Hickory TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Carolina Container Hickory falls in its industry

1,338 Shipping containers, corrugate establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 61 Shipping containers, corrugate employers in North Carolina.

Carolina Container Hickory (136 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Carolina Container Hickory
Carolina Container Hickory (136 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Carolina Container Hickory has more employees than the Shipping containers, corrugated, made fr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 4 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 5 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2019 2.8 1.7 5 0 0
2018 3.2 1.6 6 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 6 0 0
2016 3.3 2.2 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · NC · Hickory

1,338 Shipping containers, corrugated, made from purchased paper or paperboard 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 Great Northern Corporation - Twin Cities 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Amarillo Container 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Northern Corporation - Chippewa Falls 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Beloit Corrugating) LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union Power Cooperative 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC316 Mt. Holly NC 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Mid-Atlantic, LLC 136 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 VCNA Prairie LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chico Nut Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pico Rivera Ca Distribution Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Paul 10180 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE UFP Nappanee, LLC 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Womack Machine Supply Co Farmers Branch 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE PRC Inc. 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE FV Clinics-Blaine 136 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, 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.