Commercial building construction general contractors · North Carolina

David E. Looper & Company, Inc.

Hickory, NC · ~67 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

David E. Looper & Company, Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 90% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. safety composite

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−3.1

2016→2024

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. injury rate improved

David E. Looper & Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.1 from 5.1 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #73/93
  • PHOTO 7022174 - Taylor CUB…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7022174 - Taylor CUB & GCS (0.0 TCR gap)

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David E. Looper & Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows David E. Looper & Company, Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (90% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.9

Where David E. Looper & Company, Inc. falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 93 Commercial building constructi employers in North Carolina.

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate David E. Looper & Company, Inc.
David E. Looper & Company, Inc. (67 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

David E. Looper & Company, Inc. has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.0 2 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 4 1 0
2022 5.2 2.6 4 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.1 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · NC · Hickory

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors 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 7022174 - Taylor CUB & GCS 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR George W Reagan Company 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cowen Construction 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rick Shipman Construction 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cherryville Location 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31827 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6775_15699 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pike Indiana Statewide Operations 67 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 KMA Employee Leasing 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Tractor, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Shenandoah University 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midwest Feeders, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peachtree City 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant 406 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paramount Drywall, Inc 67 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.