Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand · North Carolina

Hickory Cable Plant

Hickory, NC · ~958 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Cable Plant runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand workplace, earning a grade A.

Hickory Cable Plant: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Cable Plant safety composite

Hickory Cable Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Hickory Cable Plant held a steady TCR band

Hickory Cable Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.3 in 2023 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.3 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Berk-Tek
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~958 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berk-Tek (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Cable Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Cable Plant averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Cable Plant TCR series: 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Cable Plant falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Cable Plant (958 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Cable Plant
Hickory Cable Plant (958 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hickory Cable Plant has more employees than the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 1.3 0.4 10 0 0
2023 1.3 0.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · NC · Hickory

49 Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand 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 Berk-Tek 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corning LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Data Center Systems 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brown Summit Plant 959 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Morrisville_4200 Paramount Pkwy_ECA42PAR 962 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earth Fare LLC 964 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT3 951 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 Technical Process & Engineering Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Erie Materials Binghamton 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Panama Transfer Panama 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Walsh Timber Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - JAX3 958 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanwha Q Cells USA, Inc. 958 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital 958 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Bernardino Justice Center 958 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. 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.