Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · North Carolina

Police Department

Hickory, NC · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 555% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 17.8 TCR = 555% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Police Department: 12.0 → 16.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 24.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2020

Police Department's TCR rose 4.5 from 12.0 in 2016 to 16.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 24.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 555% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #48/49
  • PHOTO Hawaii Police Depart…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hawaii Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 17.8 TCR (555% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police Department TCR series: 2016=12 · 2019=24.8 · 2020=16.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 49 Police departments (except Ame employers in North Carolina.

Police Department (19 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (19 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2020 16.5 5.5 2 1 0
2019 24.8 18.6 4 0 0
2016 12.0 6.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Hickory

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hawaii Police Department 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westminster Police Department 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The City of Lake Forest Public Safety Building 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 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 Pearl Valley Rehab of Perry 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MKE - Ground Ops 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rose Court Assisted Living 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City Aluminum Foundry Co. 17.8 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 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.