Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Rhb - Hkry

Hickory, NC · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rhb - Hkry runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Rhb - Hkry: 3.7 TCR = 167% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rhb - Hkry safety composite

Rhb - Hkry scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Rhb - Hkry: 3.7 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2022

Rhb - Hkry's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.7 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO Rockland
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rockland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rhb - Hkry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rhb - Hkry averages 3.7 TCR (167% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Rhb - Hkry TCR series: 2018=3.7 · 2020=1.9 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Rhb - Hkry falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 14 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in North Carolina.

Rhb - Hkry (56 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Rhb - Hkry
Rhb - Hkry (56 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Rhb - Hkry has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2022 5.5 1.8 2 1 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NC · Hickory

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers 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 Rockland 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayside Distributing, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Distributing Company (1000) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&F Distributors - Roswell 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Tri-State 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siler City Hatchery 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.B. Rose & Sons, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Electric Cooperative 56 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 Krapf School Bus NJN 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1503 - Keene 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1105 - Brownsville 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 707 - San Marcos 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG742 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG391 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wireless - Bellingham 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0698 CS Beef Packers 56 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: 2022, 2020, 2018. 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.