Police Protection · North Carolina

City of Hickory - Police

Hickory, NC · ~171 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Hickory - Police runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police Protection workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Hickory - Police: 4.9 TCR = 154% of Police Protection BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Hickory - Police safety composite

City of Hickory - Police scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Hickory - Police: 3.2 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

City of Hickory - Police's TCR rose 4.5 from 3.2 in 2021 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 154% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #10/49
  • PHOTO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POLICE DEPARTMENT (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Hickory - Police in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Hickory - Police averages 4.9 TCR (154% of the Police Protection BLS benchmark).

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

City of Hickory - Police TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Hickory - Police falls in its industry

716 Police Protection establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 49 Police Protection employers in North Carolina.

City of Hickory - Police (171 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Hickory - Police
City of Hickory - Police (171 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Hickory - Police has more employees than the Police Protection median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 7.7 5.8 11 1 0
2023 5.3 3.0 9 0 0
2022 3.4 2.3 5 1 0
2021 3.2 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Hickory

716 Police 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 POLICE DEPARTMENT 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - Baltimore 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Paving 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corp et al 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chesapeake Containment Systems, Inc. 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings Mountain 171 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 Legacy Industries 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5768 - Birmingham 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE Supply Redding Branch 28 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Glazers Beer And Beverage Shreveport 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1747 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem Acquisition 1, LLC 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Agri Systems Inc 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20848 North 171 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.