Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll formed), manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickman Edge Systems

Arden, NC · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickman Edge Systems runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll formed), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickman Edge Systems: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll formed), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickman Edge Systems safety composite

Hickman Edge Systems scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.7

2021→2023

Hickman Edge Systems injury rate improved

Hickman Edge Systems's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.3 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.3 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Arden, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/37
  • PHOTO IVI South, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IVI South, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickman Edge Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickman Edge Systems averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll formed), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickman Edge Systems TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickman Edge Systems falls in its industry

1,158 Gutters, sheet metal (except c establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 37 Gutters, sheet metal (except c employers in North Carolina.

Hickman Edge Systems (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickman Edge Systems
Hickman Edge Systems (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hickman Edge Systems has fewer employees than the Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NC · Arden

1,158 Gutters, sheet metal (except custom roll formed), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, 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 IVI South, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Last Arrow Manufacturing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Momentum Manufacturing Group - Amherst, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Therma-Tron-X, Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Tri-State 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siler City Hatchery 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Rose & Sons, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Electric Cooperative 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR HYCO Alabama, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McKenna Roofing & Construction, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Louis Hospitality Center 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4051 CORONA, CA 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nor-Ral, Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Contruction Utilities INC. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Society- St. Luke's 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longhini Sausage 56 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: 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.