Employer · North Carolina

Hickory 018

Conover, NC · ~62 workers · 8 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

Hickory 018 runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Hickory 018: 7.5 TCR = 166% of industry BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory 018 safety composite

Hickory 018 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Hickory 018: 6.8 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Hickory 018's TCR rose 1.4 from 6.8 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Conover, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #139/164
  • PHOTO Phoenix AZ FXFE-PHX
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix AZ FXFE-PHX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory 018 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory 018 averages 7.5 TCR (166% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory 018 TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=7.9 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Hickory 018 falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #139 safest of 164 industry employers in North Carolina.

Hickory 018 (62 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory 018
Hickory 018 (62 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Hickory 018 has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.2 6.8 6 0 0
2023 5.7 2.8 4 0 0
2022 7.4 5.0 6 0 0
2021 3.8 2.5 3 0 0
2020 8.5 5.1 5 0 0
2019 7.9 4.8 5 0 0
2018 11.6 7.2 8 0 0
2017 6.8 3.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Conover

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 95 employers in Conover, 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 Phoenix AZ FXFE-PHX 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDA 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Harbor - NCA/NV - 072 - NBY 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland - GR 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT -EST 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boseman Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Durham 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville - New Bern 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zenith - Conover 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4224 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4224 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2510 Conover Folding 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Eagle Grove Farms 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Baltimore Branch 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S01082 - Chino Hauling 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gioia Concrete Construction Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laredo 168 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maxcess - Tidland Camas WA 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Healthcare of New Harmony 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Valley Health and Rehab 62 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. 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.