Employer · North Carolina

Hickory Vending

Hickory, NC · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hickory Vending runs at 656% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Hickory Vending: 22.3 TCR = 656% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hickory Vending safety composite

Hickory Vending scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 Vending: 16.2 → 27.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 48.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Hickory Vending's TCR rose 11.3 from 16.2 in 2018 to 27.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 48.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454210 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.3 · 656% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO CanteenSan Antonio
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CanteenSan Antonio (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hickory Vending in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hickory Vending averages 22.3 TCR (656% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Hickory Vending TCR series: 2018=16.2 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=48.3 · 2022=16.5 · 2024=27.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Hickory Vending falls in its industry

311 industry establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 20 industry employers in North Carolina.

Hickory Vending (50 employees, TCR 22.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hickory Vending
Hickory Vending (50 employees, TCR 22.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1

Hickory Vending has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.1. 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 27.4 13.7 2 0 0
2022 16.5 16.5 1 0 0
2021 48.3 16.1 3 0 0
2020 11.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 13.8 13.8 1 0 0
2018 16.2 16.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454210 · NC · Hickory

311 industry 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 CanteenSan Antonio 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRH Commissary 22.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CK DIST-Omaha 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Rapids 22.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terrell and Johnny Williams 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wadesboro Hatchery / Transp 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Region Office (Cary) 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE WEMC - Youngsville 50 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 Greenbrae 22.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Cedar Rapids 22.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairlane Dialysis 22.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Ridge Senior Housing, LLC 22.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE OU Medical Center PT 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everett Vending 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tx St Cfa 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Stripping Services LLC 50 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.