Employer · North Carolina

Hickory Business Furniture

Hickory, NC · ~247 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Business Furniture runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickory Business Furniture: 3.7 TCR = 112% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Business Furniture safety composite

Hickory Business Furniture scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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 Business Furniture: 3.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Hickory Business Furniture's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.1 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337211 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Arcadia Chair Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arcadia Chair Company - F3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Business Furniture in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Business Furniture averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Business Furniture TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2022=3.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Business Furniture falls in its industry

137 industry establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #7 safest of 11 industry employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Business Furniture (247 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Hickory Business Furniture
Hickory Business Furniture (247 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 105 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Hickory Business Furniture has more employees than the industry 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
2024 4.9 2.5 9 1 0
2022 3.1 3.1 9 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337211 · NC · Hickory

137 industry 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 Arcadia Chair Company - F3 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Workrite Ergonomics 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JA Eisch, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mediatechnologies LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Technimark LLC - Plant 1 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hexagon Agility Salisbury 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iconic Marine Group, LLC 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 7 247 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 Edgewood manor of wellston 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Construction Concepts 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Regional Medical Center 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard Air Lite Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bard Manufacturing Company, Inc. 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Zyverden, Inc. 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Northern New England, Inc. 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perfect Plastic Printing Corporation 247 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, 2022, 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.