Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, industrial, and institutional, manufacturing · North Carolina

Robert Abbey, Inc

Hickory, NC · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Robert Abbey, Inc runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, industrial, and institutional, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Robert Abbey, Inc: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, industrial, and institutional, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Robert Abbey, Inc safety composite

Robert Abbey, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−2.9

2020→2023

Robert Abbey, Inc injury rate improved

Robert Abbey, Inc's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.9 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335122 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Tomcat USA, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tomcat USA, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Robert Abbey, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Robert Abbey, Inc averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, industrial, and institutional, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Robert Abbey, Inc TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Robert Abbey, Inc falls in its industry

98 Ceiling lighting fixtures, com establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Ceiling lighting fixtures, com employers in North Carolina.

Robert Abbey, Inc (70 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Robert Abbey, Inc
Robert Abbey, Inc (70 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Robert Abbey, Inc has fewer employees than the Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, i median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.8 4.3 4 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335122 · NC · Hickory

98 Ceiling lighting fixtures, commercial, industrial, and institutional, manufacturing 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 Tomcat USA, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Finelite, Livermore 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCW CORPORATION 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tamco 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHARP FARM INC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Farming Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACT Power Services, LLC 70 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 Unit #1869 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Potomac Supply LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HEI SM Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston Express Bus - North Londonderry, NH 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valentia Service Center-153 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Crosse Service Center-9N 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contech Lexst 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA.CONCO.16 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc 70 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. 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.