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

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center

Hickory, NC · ~1,006 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center runs at 29% 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 Manufacturing & Technology Center: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center safety composite

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center: 0.4 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2017

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.4 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Corning Optical Comm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~1,006 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Fiber optic cable made from purchased fiber optic strand BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center TCR series: 2016=0.4 · 2017=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center falls in its industry

49 Fiber optic cable made from pu establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 15 Fiber optic cable made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center (1,006 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center
Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center (1,006 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 111 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 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 1.5 1.1 16 1 0
2016 0.4 0.4 4 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Corning Optical Communications (COC) : Newton, NC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howell Road 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CompuLink-USA 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Y73 NWK - NEWINGTON 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE RTP 1,003 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jernigan Oil and Propane - Ahoskie 1,003 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1103-Atrium Health University City (1103) 1,003 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 1,002 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 Cable Plant 958 FTE
NAT-TCR Siemens Energy Inc. - Mount Vernon 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 48- Ladd (Cattani) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont District Office EN4T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MFG-Augusta, GA-USA 1,006 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolf Appliance 1,006 FTE
NAT-SIZE Breakthru Beverage Illinois, LLC. 1,006 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 090 1,006 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.