Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory Chair - HHG

Name: Hickory Chair - HHG Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~483 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hickory Chair - HHG runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hickory Chair - HHG: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Chair - HHG safety composite

Hickory Chair - HHG scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Hickory Chair - HHG held a steady TCR band

Hickory Chair - HHG's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.6 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #12/114
PHOTO HHG Belden Plant
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~483 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HHG Belden Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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1.5
HHG Belden Pla

1.5
Norwalk Custom

1.4
LCI - 050

1.3
Ort Furniture

1.3

What this shows Hickory Chair - HHG averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Hickory Chair - HHG TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Chair - HHG falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 114 Household-type furniture, upho employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Chair - HHG (483 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hickory Chair - HHG has more employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017	1.3	0.2	5	1	0
2016	1.6	1.0	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, 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	HHG Belden Plant	BELDEN, MS	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Norwalk Custom Order Furniture	NORWALK, OH	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LCI - 050	GOSHEN, IN	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ort Furniture Mfg. Co.	SALEM, OH	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	USA Thomasville NC	THOMASVILLE	484 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corning LLC	WINSTON-SALEM	484 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Magneti Marelli	SANFORD	482 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Solid Surface Care, Inc.	CHARLOTTE	484 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	PolyOne Corporation Kennesaw	Kennesaw, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	43141h - Normal Il Pec	Normal, IL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	03 - Dewitt	Dewitt, NY	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ACS_INDIANAPOLIS_IN	Indianapolis, IN	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Antioch Home	Dalton, GA	483 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brockton (Mabro)	Brockton, MA	483 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LifeScan Fremont	Fremont, CA	483 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JLL Corporate Office - New York	New York, NY	483 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: 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.