Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Hickory, NC

Hickory, NC · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory, NC runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickory, NC: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory, NC safety composite

Hickory, NC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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, NC held a steady TCR band

Hickory, NC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/25
  • PHOTO SouthernCarlson - Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (HE) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hickory, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory, NC averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Hickory, NC falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 25 Industrial supplies (except di employers in North Carolina.

Hickory, NC (28 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory, NC
Hickory, NC (28 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Hickory, NC has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · NC · Hickory

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers 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 SouthernCarlson - Houston Eastex (HE) 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADP 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENA - Corp 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HydroairDees 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE H & D Farms, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 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 Kinship Pointe Seward 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Corporate 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1655 3rd St,San Francisco (MB3 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrenceburg 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coston & Son, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Emergency Clinic Pearl 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Electric Connection 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olshan Foundation Repair Co. of Jackson LLC 28 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, 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.