Manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory Foam Fabrication

Name: Hickory Foam Fabrication Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Claremont, NC · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hickory Foam Fabrication runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hickory Foam Fabrication: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Foam Fabrication safety composite

Hickory Foam Fabrication scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 12.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 Foam Fabrication: 1.6 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.27× in 2020

Hickory Foam Fabrication's TCR rose 11.0 from 1.6 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Claremont, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

DART 12.6 DART
RANK #34/39
PHOTO American Converters,…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Converters, Inc. - Colorado (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.6
American Conve

5.6
CMT Materials,

5.6
Penn Foam Corp

5.5
Compsys Inc.

5.5

What this shows Hickory Foam Fabrication averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Hickory Foam Fabrication TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=4.8 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=12.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Foam Fabrication falls in its industry

474 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 39 Manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Foam Fabrication (67 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Hickory Foam Fabrication has fewer employees than the Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2020	12.6	12.6	5
2019	3.2	1.6	2
2017	4.8	3.9	5
2016	1.6	1.6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · NC · Claremont

474 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	American Converters, Inc. - Colorado	LONGMONT, CO	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CMT Materials, LLC	ATTLEBORO, MA	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Penn Foam Corp.	ALLENTOWN, PA	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Compsys Inc.	MELBOURNE, FL	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Cherryville Location	CROUSE	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31827	CASTLE HAYNE	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	David E. Looper & Company, Inc.	HICKORY	67 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6775_15699	WINTERVILLE	67 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Claremont Plant	Claremont	858 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont	Claremont	751 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CommScope Claremont Facility	Claremont	705 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Claremont	Claremont	672 FTE
NAT-TCR	Zorlu MFG Co, LLC	Sandersville, GA	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 602	Long Beach, CA	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	DGS Aviation Services : PIT - Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	C R Metal Products, Inc	Saint Louis, MO	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Remote Solutions	Naperville, IL	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Grandview Center	Cumberland, RI	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Good Samaritan Society-Canistota	Canistota, SD	67 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lake Arrowhead Country Club	Lake Arrowhead, CA	67 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: 2020, 2019, 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.