Couriers and Express Delivery Services · North Carolina

Nchik - Hickory Center

Hickory, NC · ~156 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nchik - Hickory Center runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade C.

Nchik - Hickory Center: 5.7 TCR = 87% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nchik - Hickory Center safety composite

Nchik - Hickory Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.7

2019→2024

Nchik - Hickory Center injury rate improved

Nchik - Hickory Center's TCR fell 9.7 from 10.6 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.6 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.7 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #82/214
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DPX4 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nchik - Hickory Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nchik - Hickory Center averages 5.7 TCR (87% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Nchik - Hickory Center TCR series: 2019=10.6 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Nchik - Hickory Center falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 214 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in North Carolina.

Nchik - Hickory Center (156 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Nchik - Hickory Center
Nchik - Hickory Center (156 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Nchik - Hickory Center has more employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2022 3.4 2.6 4 0 0
2021 7.7 4.3 9 0 0
2020 6.9 4.3 8 0 0
2019 10.6 8.7 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · NC · Hickory

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DPX4 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KSLEN - LENEXA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCDUR - DURHAM CENTER 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DNJ4 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Electric Cooperatives 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.W. S. Construction, Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE I40/440 - Project 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schindler Clinton Escalator Plant 156 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 Kslen - Lenexa 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Frenchy's Sausage Co, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrowhead Industries 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Masconomet Healthcare Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 1 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warwick Forest 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scanfil 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cub Foods Quarry - 5502 156 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.