Commercial building construction general contractors · North Carolina

Hickory Construction Company

Hickory, NC · ~32 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Construction Company runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickory Construction Company: 2.4 TCR = 84% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Construction Company safety composite

Hickory Construction Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 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

−5.6

2018→2024

Hickory Construction Company injury rate improved

Hickory Construction Company's TCR fell 5.6 from 5.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.6 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #70/93
  • PHOTO Straub Construction …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Straub Construction Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Construction Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Construction Company averages 2.4 TCR (84% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Construction Company TCR series: 2018=5.6 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.9

Where Hickory Construction Company falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 93 Commercial building constructi employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Construction Company (32 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Construction Company
Hickory Construction Company (32 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Hickory Construction Company has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2019 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.6 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · NC · Hickory

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors 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 Straub Construction Co Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Hood Hammerhead MC-2202 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Verslues Construction Co., Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hall Construction Co., Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE T.C. Smith Produce Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 32 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 Shell Gulf of Mexico 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lahey Lynnfield 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapman Partnership Homestead 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Durant Public Schools 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Creekside Community High School 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVSP/Adm 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gridlock Traffic Systems, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Withers Tool, Die and Manufacturing Co. 32 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.