Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand · North Carolina

Hickory Headquarters

Name: Hickory Headquarters Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~884 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hickory Headquarters runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand workplace, earning a grade A.

Hickory Headquarters: 0.2 TCR = 5% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Headquarters safety composite

Hickory Headquarters scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Hickory Headquarters held a steady TCR band

Hickory Headquarters's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.2 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.2 · 2017=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335921 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 5% of ind

DART 0.1 DART
RANK #2/15
PHOTO DATAONE SYSTEMS
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~884 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DATAONE SYSTEMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.5
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0.2
DATAONE SYSTEM

0.2
Prysmian Cable

0.2
Charlotte Head

0.1

What this shows Hickory Headquarters averages 0.2 TCR (5% of the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS benchmark).

Hickory Headquarters TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2017=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Headquarters falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 15 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Headquarters (884 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hickory Headquarters has more employees than the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017	0.1	0.1	1	0	0
2016	0.2	0.1	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335921 · NC · Hickory

49 Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	DATAONE SYSTEMS	DALLAS, TX	0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Prysmian Cables & Systems USA, LLC	LEXINGTON, SC	0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Charlotte Headquarters	CHARLOTTE, NC	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ortronics Inc.	HICKORY, NC	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Camco mfg., Inc.	GREENSBORO	883 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2807-1420	GARYSBURG	883 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cary - 305 Gregson Drive	CARY	883 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mooresville Graded School District	MOORESVILLE	886 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	MS - Aiken, SC - 1AIS2	Aiken, SC	0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	199-Denver HQ	Denver, CO	0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	CLCYCAGU	Los Angeles, CA	0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	RCSNTXMX	Richardson, TX	0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Main Office Building	Phialdelphia, PA	884 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Franklin Energy	Port Washington, WI	884 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AGCO : Jackson	Jackson, MN	884 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Buy-Lo Quality Food Stores Inc. d/b/a Piggly Wiggly	Birmingham, AL	884 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: 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.