Beer merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Hickory Division

Hickory, NC · ~106 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Division runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hickory Division: 4.5 TCR = 206% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Division safety composite

Hickory Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.5 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.0

2016→2019

Hickory Division injury rate improved

Hickory Division's TCR fell 4.0 from 7.5 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 206% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Harris Beverages LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harris Beverages LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Division averages 4.5 TCR (206% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Division TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Hickory Division falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Division (106 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Division
Hickory Division (106 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Hickory Division has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2019 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2016 7.5 1.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NC · Hickory

664 Beer merchant wholesalers 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 Harris Beverages LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KOHLFELD DISTRIBUTING, INC. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HFC - Chattanooga 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Distributing Santa Rosa 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DRB Group - Raleigh 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gentry service Group 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Eden NC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE UN1F1ED2NC 106 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 RCX Nebraska 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manitou Group Madison SD 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI-Gadsden 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bilco AR 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation- Coppell 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champaign, IL 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Care Hospice of Sparta 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 30024 106 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.