Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings · North Carolina

City of Hickory - Public Services

Hickory, NC · ~265 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Hickory - Public Services runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Hickory - Public Services: 7.5 TCR = 167% of Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Hickory - Public Services safety composite

City of Hickory - Public Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−5.0

2021→2024

City of Hickory - Public Services injury rate improved

City of Hickory - Public Services's TCR fell 5.0 from 10.4 in 2021 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.4 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561790 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Owens Chimney Systems
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~265 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owens Chimney Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Hickory - Public Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Hickory - Public Services averages 7.5 TCR (167% of the Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings BLS benchmark).

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

City of Hickory - Public Services TCR series: 2021=10.4 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where City of Hickory - Public Services falls in its industry

171 Other Services to Buildings an establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Other Services to Buildings an employers in North Carolina.

City of Hickory - Public Services (265 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Hickory - Public Services
City of Hickory - Public Services (265 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1

City of Hickory - Public Services has more employees than the Other Services to Buildings and Dwelling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.4 3.9 14 0 0
2023 8.5 6.5 19 2 0
2022 5.8 3.8 12 2 0
2021 10.4 7.4 19 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · NC · Hickory

171 Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings 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 Owens Chimney Systems 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hobert Pools 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woods Maintenance Services Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zoom Drain - Philadelphia 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baker Roofing Corporate 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE WB Moore Company 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greensboro NC FXFE-GBO 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legrand 265 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 10778 Portsmouth 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Demeter Millwork, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foreman Pro Cleaning, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Webster 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Formosa Plastics Corporation Point Comfort TX 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radisson Blu Mall of America 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAZ Parking Chicago, LLC 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027613 Mountaire De 265 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.