Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers · North Carolina

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation

Hickory, NC · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers workplace, earning a grade A.

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers BLS 3.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation safety composite

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation held a steady TCR band

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713940 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO 174 Napa
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 174 Napa (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers BLS benchmark).

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

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.1

Where City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation falls in its industry

629 Fitness and Recreational Sport establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Fitness and Recreational Sport employers in North Carolina.

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation (58 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation
City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation (58 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2

City of Hickory - Parks and Recreation has fewer employees than the Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713940 · NC · Hickory

629 Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers 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 174 Napa 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baylor Health Enterprises, L.P. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 25-USF-S&H CRYSTAL PARK 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR College Station,TX 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wilmington North Operations Complex 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMI Services, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE North State Environmental 58 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 Lombardo Homes of Michigan 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Don Ayres Pontiac Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Laser Mechanisms, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Prairie TX Millwork 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salisbury 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Book Company - Cumberland 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Restpadd Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milpitas AAW 58 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.