Manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont

Claremont, NC · ~751 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont safety composite

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont: 3.2 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2023

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont's TCR rose 6.6 from 3.2 in 2019 to 9.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Claremont, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #98/114
  • PHOTO Akin House, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~751 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Akin House, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont TCR series: 2019=3.2 · 2021=8.6 · 2023=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont falls in its industry

300 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #98 safest of 114 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont (751 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont
Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont (751 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher 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
2023 9.8 9.0 23 0 0
2021 8.6 7.6 24 22 0
2019 3.2 2.4 23 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Claremont

300 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Claremont, 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 Akin House, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 75 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant # 6 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kroehler 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1022-Corp Ops PRN Pool 751 FTE
STATE-SIZE House of Raeford, Wallace Division 752 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Regional Headquarters (NCRH) 752 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHARLOTTE REGIONAL VISITORS AUTHORITY 752 FTE
CITY-NEAR Claremont Plant 858 FTE
CITY-NEAR CommScope Claremont Facility 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Claremont 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargo Transporters, Inc. 589 FTE
NAT-TCR North Shore University Hospitl 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TFC Recycling 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KPC Promise SNF of Wichita Falls 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ITW SAP - Elk Grove Village 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE VIP,INC. Rancho Cucamonga 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brose Tuscaloosa` 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventra Salem LLC 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE VBR 751 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: 2023, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.