Research & Development Services · North Carolina

PD&I

Hickory, NC · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PD&I runs at 404% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Research & Development Services workplace, earning a grade F.

PD&I: 2.0 TCR = 404% of Research & Development Services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PD&I safety composite

PD&I scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

PD&I: 0.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

PD&I's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541712 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 2.0 · 404% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Millipore Sigma 75 S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Millipore Sigma 75 Sylvan Street Danvers (0.0 TCR gap)

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PD&I in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PD&I averages 2.0 TCR (404% of the Research & Development Services BLS benchmark).

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

PD&I TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · BLS 0.5

Where PD&I falls in its industry

319 Research & Development Service establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Research & Development Service employers in North Carolina.

PD&I (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate PD&I
PD&I (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 0.8

PD&I has fewer employees than the Research & Development Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.8. 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
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541712 · NC · Hickory

319 Research & Development 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 Millipore Sigma 75 Sylvan Street Danvers 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concord Biosciences 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IfA-Hilo 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Builders Solutions - Shakopee 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 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 CIG Odessa 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creston (PFI) 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oneida Healthcare ACF 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Operations 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allied Mineral Products - Anniston 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE AEM 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ammon Nursery 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Inn & Suites 24 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.