Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · North Carolina

Kerr Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~52 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerr Hickory runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kerr Hickory: 4.1 TCR = 125% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerr Hickory safety composite

Kerr Hickory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Kerr Hickory: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kerr Hickory's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/43
  • PHOTO Concrete Service Co.…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Concrete Service Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerr Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerr Hickory averages 4.1 TCR (125% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Kerr Hickory TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=13.8 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerr Hickory falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #25 safest of 43 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in North Carolina.

Kerr Hickory (52 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kerr Hickory
Kerr Hickory (52 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kerr Hickory has more employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis 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
2024 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2022 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 13.8 0.0 7 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · NC · Hickory

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing 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 Concrete Service Co., Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kay Concrete Materials 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ready Mixed Concrete Co - Shop 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calportland Construction - Ready Mix Division 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sutton Energy Complex CC/CT 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor Investments LLC d/b/a Windsor Homes 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilson Covington Construction Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 52 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 Burns Motor Freight, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #197 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auria Holmesville LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Hawaii 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clawson General Contracting 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axiom Constructors 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgestone AOR 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lunar Drive 52 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, 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.