Spring Manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory Bedding Plant

Name: Hickory Bedding Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Hickory Bedding Plant runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Spring Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickory Bedding Plant: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Spring Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Bedding Plant safety composite

Hickory Bedding Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Hickory Bedding Plant: 2.4 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2023

Hickory Bedding Plant's TCR rose 1.8 from 2.4 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #5/12
PHOTO Classic Products
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Classic Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Hickory Bedding Plant averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Spring Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Hickory Bedding Plant TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Bedding Plant falls in its industry

189 Spring Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

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 12 Spring Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Bedding Plant (59 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hickory Bedding Plant has fewer employees than the Spring Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023	4.2	2.1	2
2022	3.1	3.1	2
2021	2.4	1.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · NC · Hickory

189 Spring 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Classic Products	MCHENRY, IL	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Winamac Coil Spring, Inc.	KEWANNA, IN	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	J&L Wire Cloth LLC	ST. PAUL, MN	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Automatic Spring Products Corporation	GRAND HAVEN, MI	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Christman Company - NC	GREENSBORO	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pike Mississippi Statewide Operations	MOUNT AIRY	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC	ZEBULAN	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Carolina - 03	CHARLOTTE	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	S & W Automotive Parts	Lithonia, GA	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	REV IT Logistics	Salt Lake City, UT	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #5259 Chester, MD	Chester, MD	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	463 - Pharmacy Central Fill #1	Fort Wayne, IN	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Diversicare of Tylertown	Tylertown, MS	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Modern Industries, Inc. 533	Erie, PA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Boehringer Laboratories, LLC	Phoenixville, PA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Woodbury MN	Woodbury, MN	59 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.

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