Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding, manufacturing · North Carolina

HBF

Hickory, NC · ~231 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HBF runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

HBF: 2.5 TCR = 74% of Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HBF safety composite

HBF scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

HBF: 2.3 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2022

HBF's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337211 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 74% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Trendway Corporation
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trendway Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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HBF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HBF averages 2.5 TCR (74% of the Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HBF TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where HBF falls in its industry

137 Cabinets, wood office-type, fr establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Cabinets, wood office-type, fr employers in North Carolina.

HBF (231 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 105 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HBF
HBF (231 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 105 employees and a TCR of 3.7

HBF has more employees than the Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 3.1 3.1 9 0 0
2021 1.6 1.2 4 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2018 3.5 0.4 8 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337211 · NC · Hickory

137 Cabinets, wood office-type, freestanding, manufacturing 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 Trendway Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spectra Wood Lewistown 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haworth Health Environments (Legacy) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI Distribution 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSM Services 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASC Taylor Brothers 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&G GBO Manufacturing 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Hydraulic Cylinders, Inc 231 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 Zeh - Noh Hay - Pasco 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW Dallas Forth Worth International Airport 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 30047 - Capstone Awg Goodletsville 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dawson GP Oil Refinery 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE SweetWorks Confections LLC 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE INTEGRIS Grove Hospital 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA-02 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLI Cards Los Angeles 231 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.