Employer · North Carolina

Performance Hickory - 0810

Hickory, NC · ~587 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Performance Hickory - 0810 runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Performance Hickory - 0810: 2.9 TCR = 130% of industry BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Performance Hickory - 0810 safety composite

Performance Hickory - 0810 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−2.7

2016→2021

Performance Hickory - 0810 injury rate improved

Performance Hickory - 0810's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.2 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #9/54
  • PHOTO Marquez Brothers Int…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~587 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marquez Brothers International, Inc. - Fresno (0.0 TCR gap)

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Performance Hickory - 0810 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Performance Hickory - 0810 averages 2.9 TCR (130% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Performance Hickory - 0810 TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=4 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=2 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Performance Hickory - 0810 falls in its industry

1,651 industry establishments

Safer than 80% 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 54 industry employers in North Carolina.

Performance Hickory - 0810 (587 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Performance Hickory - 0810
Performance Hickory - 0810 (587 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Performance Hickory - 0810 has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2021 1.5 0.9 11 0 0
2020 2.0 1.7 14 0 0
2019 2.2 1.8 16 0 0
2018 3.2 2.8 22 0 0
2017 4.0 2.9 26 0 0
2016 4.2 3.7 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NC · Hickory

1,651 industry 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 Marquez Brothers International, Inc. - Fresno 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memphis Sales & DSD Facility 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Hammond, LA (PDC) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Newburgh, NY (GDC) 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GBO-ODFL 587 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutrien 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Therapeutics Corporation- RTP 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE Implus Footcare LLC 588 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 Wrought Washer Manufacturing 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR OCF 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Google Warehouse 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alden Estates of Evanston 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prepared Foods 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carmelitos 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harbor Hills 587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maravilla 587 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.