Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory Chair

Hickory, NC · ~382 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Chair runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hickory Chair: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Chair safety composite

Hickory Chair scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2021→2024

Hickory Chair injury rate improved

Hickory Chair's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.0 in 2021 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #13/114
  • PHOTO La-Z-Boy South, Newt…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~382 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La-Z-Boy South, Newton MS (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hickory Chair in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Chair averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Chair TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Chair falls in its industry

300 Chair and couch springs, assem establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 114 Chair and couch springs, assem employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Chair (382 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Chair
Hickory Chair (382 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hickory Chair has more employees than the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manu 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
2024 0.9 0.9 3 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 10 0 0
2022 1.6 1.1 5 1 0
2021 2.0 0.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Chair and couch springs, assembled, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR La-Z-Boy South, Newton MS 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR La-Z-Boy Midwest 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR La-Z-Boy-Midwest-Neosho 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overman International Corporation 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prestage Foods 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Raeford Plant 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE WHSE 31 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1379 382 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 Copper State Metals LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wells Specialty Pharmacy, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellville Acetylene Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Depot of Illinois, Inc. - Corporate 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midwest Tape, LLC 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Beef Co. 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teichert Construction Woodland 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco 382 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, 2022, 2021. 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.