Foam insulation installation · North Carolina

Tailored Foam HKY

Hickory, NC · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tailored Foam HKY runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foam insulation installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Tailored Foam HKY: 7.5 TCR = 267% of Foam insulation installation BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tailored Foam HKY safety composite

Tailored Foam HKY scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−8.4

2018→2021

Tailored Foam HKY injury rate improved

Tailored Foam HKY's TCR fell 8.4 from 12.5 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.5 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=9.9 · 2021=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 267% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #53/56
  • PHOTO Custom Drywall, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Drywall, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tailored Foam HKY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tailored Foam HKY averages 7.5 TCR (267% of the Foam insulation installation BLS benchmark).

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

Tailored Foam HKY TCR series: 2018=12.5 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=9.9 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Tailored Foam HKY falls in its industry

1,613 Foam insulation installation establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #53 safest of 56 Foam insulation installation employers in North Carolina.

Tailored Foam HKY (30 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tailored Foam HKY
Tailored Foam HKY (30 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Tailored Foam HKY has fewer employees than the Foam insulation installation median and a higher 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
2021 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 9.9 9.9 3 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2018 12.5 6.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · NC · Hickory

1,613 Foam insulation installation 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 Custom Drywall, Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metcalf, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dav-Lin, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR G Brothers Construction, Inc. 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shugart Farm 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hays Hatchery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hight Family Farms LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Point Operations Center 30 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 Public Works Operations 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Westchester Health and Rehabilitation Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Sky Care Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR EMPORL, Inc dba Empire Works 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seneca Square 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 280014-Saint Louis Mo West County Vmf 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Arbor Trails 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asf 423 30 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, 2019, 2018. 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.