Other Airport Operations · North Carolina

City of Hickory - Airport

Hickory, NC · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Hickory - Airport runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Hickory - Airport: 7.3 TCR = 161% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Hickory - Airport safety composite

City of Hickory - Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−23.0

2021→2024

City of Hickory - Airport injury rate improved

City of Hickory - Airport's TCR fell 23.0 from 23.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 23.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=23.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/52
  • PHOTO 00001283 DEN - 283 D…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 00001283 DEN - 283 DENVER INT L AIRPORT (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Hickory - Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Hickory - Airport averages 7.3 TCR (161% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

City of Hickory - Airport TCR series: 2021=23 · 2022=0 · 2023=6 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Hickory - Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 52 Other Airport Operations employers in North Carolina.

City of Hickory - Airport (22 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Hickory - Airport
City of Hickory - Airport (22 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

City of Hickory - Airport has fewer employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 23.0 23.0 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NC · Hickory

1,555 Other Airport Operations 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 00001283 DEN - 283 DENVER INT L AIRPORT 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect International Airport Services TUS 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prospect Airport Services AUS 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGI MIA 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A Plus Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanguard Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE LNM - 105 -EST 22 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 Fairlawn Haven 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DoorDash Essentials, DET-1 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepper Source Rogers 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCL3 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn - Lexington 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elanco Terre Haute 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville, SC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE LANSING BUILDING PRODUCTS NORTHEAST LLC - West Bridgewater 22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.