Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · North Carolina

Hickory Hky

Newton, NC · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Hky runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Hickory Hky: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Hky safety composite

Hickory Hky scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Hky: 3.6 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Hickory Hky's TCR rose 5.8 from 3.6 in 2019 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Newton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #116/164
  • PHOTO Tifton TIF
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tifton TIF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Hky in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Hky averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Hky TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Hickory Hky falls in its industry

3,020 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #116 safest of 164 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Hky (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Hky
Hickory Hky (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Hickory Hky has fewer employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 9.4 3.1 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2020 12.6 12.6 3 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NC · Newton

3,020 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 83 employers in Newton, 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 Tifton TIF 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-HL-LE 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR XDP 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 029 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton NC DC 1,644 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3811 - Newton DC 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN ePowertrain Newton 1,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Driveline Newton LLC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Tifton TIF 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 3 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR R.F. Woehrmyer Concrete Construction, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR LBT, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dvj- Vi Jon 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 03 Metro North 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennedy International Airport Power Plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE York Energy Center 30 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. 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.