Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · North Carolina

King Hickory Furniture Company

Hickory, NC · ~195 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King Hickory Furniture Company runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

King Hickory Furniture Company: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King Hickory Furniture Company safety composite

King Hickory Furniture Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

King Hickory Furniture Company: 2.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

King Hickory Furniture Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #26/114
  • PHOTO Creative Leather fru…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creative Leather frurniture INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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King Hickory Furniture Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King Hickory Furniture Company averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

King Hickory Furniture Company TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.5 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where King Hickory Furniture Company falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #26 safest of 114 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in North Carolina.

King Hickory Furniture Company (195 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 King Hickory Furniture Company
King Hickory Furniture Company (195 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

King Hickory Furniture Company has more employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o 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 3.2 0.8 4 0 0
2023 3.9 2.4 5 0 0
2022 3.9 1.7 7 0 0
2021 3.9 1.9 6 0 0
2020 2.3 0.6 4 0 0
2019 3.4 1.7 6 0 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.4 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NC · Hickory

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Creative Leather frurniture INC. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant # 5 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Furniture Manufacturing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 9 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BE&K Building Group, LLC 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE LJ Electrical Inc. 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Park 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanguard Main VGM 195 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 Corrado Construction Company LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampstead 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 30230-Capstone Kroger Keller Tx 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Highwood USA LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Children's Hospital Colorado - Briargate 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kilbourn 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caro Factory 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - MFC 195 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.