General warehousing and storage · North Carolina

Distribution Warehouse

Hickory, NC · ~14 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Distribution Warehouse runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade A.

Distribution Warehouse: 2.1 TCR = 36% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Distribution Warehouse safety composite

Distribution Warehouse scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Distribution Warehouse held a steady TCR band

Distribution Warehouse's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=5.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.1 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #107/330
  • PHOTO Caribtrans Logistics…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caribtrans Logistics, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Distribution Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Distribution Warehouse averages 2.1 TCR (36% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Distribution Warehouse TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=5 · 2023=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Distribution Warehouse falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #107 safest of 330 General warehousing and storag employers in North Carolina.

Distribution Warehouse (14 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Distribution Warehouse
Distribution Warehouse (14 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Distribution Warehouse has fewer employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2018 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · NC · Hickory

9,477 General warehousing and storage 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Caribtrans Logistics, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingram Micro Mobility Louisville Distribution Center 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HC Warren 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0780 - SPINDALE NC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cameron NC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roses Express 501 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Goldsboro/ Maintenance Division 14 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 Hatchery (Pageland) 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Meade Equipment, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Tubular Product Inc. Decatur 2.1 TCR

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: 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.