Powder coatings manufacturing · North Carolina

Lincotek Surface Solutions

Hickory, NC · ~144 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lincotek Surface Solutions runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Powder coatings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lincotek Surface Solutions: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Powder coatings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lincotek Surface Solutions safety composite

Lincotek Surface Solutions scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Lincotek Surface Solutions: 4.4 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Lincotek Surface Solutions's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.4 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Architectural and In…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Architectural and Industrial Metal Finishing Co., LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lincotek Surface Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lincotek Surface Solutions averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Powder coatings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lincotek Surface Solutions TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lincotek Surface Solutions falls in its industry

530 Powder coatings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Powder coatings manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

Lincotek Surface Solutions (144 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Lincotek Surface Solutions
Lincotek Surface Solutions (144 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Lincotek Surface Solutions has more employees than the Powder coatings manufacturing 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.9 4.9 9 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 11 1 0
2022 4.4 4.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · NC · Hickory

530 Powder coatings 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 Architectural and Industrial Metal Finishing Co., LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheboygan Paint Company - WI 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protech Powder Coatings Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pantechnology 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Duke Energy HYCO 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contempora Fabrics Inc. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4320 Winston Salem Container 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE moss supply company 144 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 Metalcraft of Mayville Horicon 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dfa-Rbs-Richmond in 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Park Oasis 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C.A. Butler 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delta - LAX 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Bank of the Rockies 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifetime Brands Rialto DC 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opus Post Acute Rehabilitation 144 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. 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.