Hickory Cable Plant

Safety Insights for Hickory Cable Plant

Hickory Cable Plant operates an establishment with approximately 958 full-time equivalent workers in HICKORY, NC, classified under the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand industry (NAICS 335921). Across 2 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 21 recordable injuries, 0 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the A letter grade (Excellent Safety Record).

Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.3 for Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand, Hickory Cable Plant's workforce experiences 39% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR below the benchmark signals that controls, training, or automation may be outperforming peers.

Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 2 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Hickory Cable Plant as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.