New car dealers · North Carolina

Hickory

Newton, NC · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade B.

Hickory: 2.5 TCR = 75% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory safety composite

Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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 held a steady TCR band

Hickory's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Newton, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/52
  • PHOTO Second STC Motors LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Second STC Motors LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Hickory falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 52 New car dealers employers in North Carolina.

Hickory (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory
Hickory (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hickory has fewer employees than the New car dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · NC · Newton

2,847 New car dealers 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 Second STC Motors LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendall Ford/Lincoln - Anchorage 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendall Chevrolet/Cadillac/Buick/GMC/Kia - Nampa 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doral Hyundai 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunburst Trout Farms 21 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 SITECON Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtis Maruyasu America Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Binghamton-Johnson City 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Browning Chapman, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GT Manufacturing LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber Sealing Solutions 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCoy Construction & Forestry - Owensboro 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Furnace Specialists, Inc. 21 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. 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.