Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber · North Carolina

Hickory Spinners

Name: Hickory Spinners Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hickory, NC · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hickory Spinners runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber workplace, earning a grade C.

Hickory Spinners: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Spinners safety composite

Hickory Spinners scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hickory Spinners: 0.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2019

Hickory Spinners's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.9 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 313110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #43/74
PHOTO Parkdale America LLC…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parkdale America LLC Plant 29 (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.1
Parkdale Ameri

3.1
Advance Fiber

3.1
Coats American

3.1
Plant 07

3.1

What this shows Hickory Spinners averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber BLS benchmark).

Hickory Spinners TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=4 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hickory Spinners falls in its industry

195 Cotton spun yarns made from pu establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 74 Cotton spun yarns made from pu employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Spinners (87 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Hickory Spinners has fewer employees than the Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fi median and a higher 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
2019	4.3	2.2	4
2018	3.2	3.2	3
2017	4.0	3.0	4
2016	0.9	0.9	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

313110 · NC · Hickory

195 Cotton spun yarns made from purchased fiber 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Parkdale America LLC Plant 29	SANFORD, NC	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Advance Fiber Technologies Corp. (AFT)	HACKENSACK, NJ	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Coats American, Inc.	MARION, NC	3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plant 07	GAFFNEY, SC	3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Primoris T&D Services - Raleigh	RALEIGH	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Haynes Heating & Cooling	ASHEVILLE	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ENVIRONAMICS, INCORPORATED CHARLOTTE	CHARLOTTE	87 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Moody Dunbar, Inc	DUNN	87 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Catawba Valley Medical Center	Hickory	2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merchants Distributors LLC	Hickory	1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frye Regional Medical Center	Hickory	1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center	Hickory	1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR	Applied Health Services	Kalispell, MT	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tower Tech	Oklahoma City, OK	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ardagh Metal Beverage-Chicago	Chicago, IL	3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0017 1521	Oro Valley, AZ	3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Visual Communications Inc	Aston, PA	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	7195 Troy Hill Drive	Elkridge, MD	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops 602	Erie, PA	87 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dr. Dan C. Trigg Memorial Hospital / PHS	Tucumcari, NM	87 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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