Fire Protection · North Carolina

City of Hickory - Fire

Hickory, NC · ~142 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Hickory - Fire runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire Protection workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Hickory - Fire: 3.1 TCR = 98% of Fire Protection BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Hickory - Fire safety composite

City of Hickory - Fire scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.7

2021→2024

City of Hickory - Fire injury rate improved

City of Hickory - Fire's TCR fell 3.7 from 5.7 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.7 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #12/36
  • PHOTO Babylon Fire Departm…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Babylon Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Hickory - Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Hickory - Fire averages 3.1 TCR (98% of the Fire Protection BLS benchmark).

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

City of Hickory - Fire TCR series: 2021=5.7 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Hickory - Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire Protection establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 36 Fire Protection employers in North Carolina.

City of Hickory - Fire (142 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 - Fire
City of Hickory - Fire (142 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Hickory - Fire has more employees than the Fire Protection median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 6 0 0
2022 1.9 1.4 4 0 0
2021 5.7 5.2 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Hickory

793 Fire Protection 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 Babylon Fire Department 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steger Estates Fire Protection District 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hana Station 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station III 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelco, LLC 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delta Contracting Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burford Construction North Carolina Statewide Operations 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parton Lumber Company 142 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 W.W. Plumbing Co, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Joseph Tower Assisted Living 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR All Aboard America! - Mesa 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE Supply Fresno Branch 19 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sierra View Homes 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bi-Mart Headquarters 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1756 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Gardens Rehabilitation & Nursing Center 142 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.