Family social service agencies · North Carolina

Social Services

Hickory, NC · ~416 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Social Services runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Family social service agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

Social Services: 3.3 TCR = 86% of Family social service agencies BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Social Services safety composite

Social Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Social Services held a steady TCR band

Social Services's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 86% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO CREATIVE COMMUNITY O…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CREATIVE COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Social Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Social Services averages 3.3 TCR (86% of the Family social service agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Social Services TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Social Services falls in its industry

990 Family social service agencies establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Family social service agencies employers in North Carolina.

Social Services (416 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Social Services
Social Services (416 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Social Services has more employees than the Family social service agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 2.6 2.6 9 0 0
2017 4.5 3.0 14 1 0
2016 2.7 2.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · NC · Hickory

990 Family social service agencies 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 CREATIVE COMMUNITY OPTIONS INC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roweton 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kings View- Blue Sky Wellness 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southbridge Early Intervention 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodrich Corporation (Corporate office) 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5063 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE County of Yadkin 416 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Charlotte, LLC 417 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 Shopko Hometown #795 (Salmon, ID) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #58 (Worthington, MN) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Office/Shop 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OF East/Schepps - Dallas 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The State Group Industrial (USA) Limited 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P. - Houston 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lippolis Electric, Inc. 416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists Association 416 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: 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.