Courier Services Except by Air · North Carolina

Hickory Center (Nchik)

Hickory, NC · ~131 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Center (Nchik) runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade B.

Hickory Center (Nchik): 4.3 TCR = 66% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Center (Nchik) safety composite

Hickory Center (Nchik) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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 Center (Nchik): 4.5 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2018

Hickory Center (Nchik)'s TCR rose 1.8 from 4.5 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.3 · 66% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #48/214
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - TCY5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Center (Nchik) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Center (Nchik) averages 4.3 TCR (66% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Center (Nchik) TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=6.2 · BLS 6.5

Where Hickory Center (Nchik) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 214 Courier Services Except by Air employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Center (Nchik) (131 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Center (Nchik)
Hickory Center (Nchik) (131 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Hickory Center (Nchik) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 6.2 5.2 6 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · NC · Hickory

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - TCY5 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 9190 EDES AVE 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartan Delivery LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDDEV - DEVILS LAKE 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smith and Jennings Inc 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piedmont Maintenance and Services of Roxboro, Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Global MONC 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Roaring River 131 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 Prince Minerals LLC- Quincy 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Illinois 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Black River Display 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0390 - Bronx, NY 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moonachie (Njmoo) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Fe Center (Nmsfe) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka (Kstop) 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evergreen (Castleberry) 131 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.