Retail Hardware Stores · North Carolina

Hickory, Nc #00434

Hickory, NC · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory, Nc #00434 runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Hickory, Nc #00434: 9.9 TCR = 290% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory, Nc #00434 safety composite

Hickory, Nc #00434 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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, Nc #00434: 7.3 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

Hickory, Nc #00434's TCR rose 1.5 from 7.3 in 2019 to 8.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 290% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #23/40
  • PHOTO TITUSVILLE, FL #03199
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TITUSVILLE, FL #03199 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory, Nc #00434 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory, Nc #00434 averages 9.9 TCR (290% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory, Nc #00434 TCR series: 2019=7.3 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=16.3 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Hickory, Nc #00434 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 40 Retail Hardware Stores employers in North Carolina.

Hickory, Nc #00434 (18 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory, Nc #00434
Hickory, Nc #00434 (18 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Hickory, Nc #00434 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 8.8 8.8 1 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2021 16.3 16.3 2 0 0
2020 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2019 7.3 7.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NC · Hickory

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR TITUSVILLE, FL #03199 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALBUQUERQUE, NM #00056 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR zamzows inc 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvin's Oneonta 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 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 Lorton Va (Newington) 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesterfields Health Care Center 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilldrup Companies, Inc.- Stafford, VA 164-22 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hildegard Health Center 9.9 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.