Garbage hauling, local · North Carolina

Republic Services Hickory NC

Hickory, NC · ~104 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Republic Services Hickory NC runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Republic Services Hickory NC: 5.9 TCR = 228% of Garbage hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Republic Services Hickory NC safety composite

Republic Services Hickory NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−6.2

2017→2021

Republic Services Hickory NC injury rate improved

Republic Services Hickory NC's TCR fell 6.2 from 8.3 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.3 · 2018=8.3 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 228% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #58/87
  • PHOTO GFL Solid Waste Midw…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC- Thorp HC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Republic Services Hickory NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Republic Services Hickory NC averages 5.9 TCR (228% of the Garbage hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Republic Services Hickory NC TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=8.3 · 2020=5 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 2.6

Where Republic Services Hickory NC falls in its industry

2,322 Garbage hauling, local establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 87 Garbage hauling, local employers in North Carolina.

Republic Services Hickory NC (104 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Republic Services Hickory NC
Republic Services Hickory NC (104 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Republic Services Hickory NC has more employees than the Garbage hauling, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 2.2 0.7 3 0 0
2020 5.0 4.1 6 0 0
2018 8.3 5.0 10 0 0
2017 8.3 8.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · NC · Hickory

2,322 Garbage hauling, local 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 GFL Solid Waste Midwest LLC- Thorp HC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04248 - Southern Maryland Hauling 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04537 - WM of AL - Vernon 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic Services of PA LLC 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE N. G. Purvis Farms 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Services (past E&I) 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Power Services Burlington Service Center 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coolsys CE Holt 104 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 Red Diamond, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GCF 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SmitHahn Company Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexus Plastics, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kearny Mesa Chevrolet 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pa058-Yapi-Dauphin County Bh, Pa058 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE CD 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Services 3103 104 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, 2018, 2017. 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.