Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing · North Carolina

Hickory Sales Office

Hickory, NC · ~16 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Sales Office runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Hickory Sales Office: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Sales Office safety composite

Hickory Sales Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2016→2023

Hickory Sales Office injury rate improved

Hickory Sales Office's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/114
  • PHOTO Holly Hunt
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holly Hunt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hickory Sales Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Sales Office averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Sales Office TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Sales Office falls in its industry

300 Sofas, upholstered, manufactur establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 114 Sofas, upholstered, manufactur employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Sales Office (16 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Sales Office
Hickory Sales Office (16 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hickory Sales Office has fewer employees than the Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.5 7.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing 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 Holly Hunt 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holly Hunt Ruseau 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #9 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics NC Field Off 005-0124, 25, 27, 33 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barnhardt Manufacturing Co Corp Kinston NC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Residential Charlotte 16 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 Brakebush Transportation 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1081 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arctic Oil Field Hot 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IWCO Chanhassen 1.1 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, 2018, 2016. 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.