Bottled gas dealers, direct selling · North Carolina

Main Branch Office

Hickory, NC · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Main Branch Office runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottled gas dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade F.

Main Branch Office: 8.6 TCR = 253% of Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Main Branch Office safety composite

Main Branch Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Main Branch Office: 6.5 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Main Branch Office's TCR rose 4.2 from 6.5 in 2023 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 253% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Leahy's Fuels, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leahy's Fuels, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Main Branch Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Main Branch Office averages 8.6 TCR (253% of the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Main Branch Office TCR series: 2023=6.5 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Main Branch Office falls in its industry

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct se establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Bottled gas dealers, direct se employers in North Carolina.

Main Branch Office (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Main Branch Office
Main Branch Office (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Main Branch Office has more employees than the Bottled gas dealers, direct selling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 10.7 5.3 4 0 0
2023 6.5 4.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · NC · Hickory

366 Bottled gas dealers, direct selling 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 Leahy's Fuels, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERIOR PLUS - 3730 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Arlington, TX 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renovex / Provanta Inc 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEWIS NURSERY 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Little Man Farming INC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC Grow Out 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Bern Complex 43 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 Edgewood Dickinson 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanco 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR voestalpine Automotive Components Cartersville, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Metal Products 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Plains Otter Tail LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Benson 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Locust Grove 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany OR 43 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. 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.