Plumbing and heating contractors · North Carolina

USA NC Hickory

Hickory, NC · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA NC Hickory runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

USA NC Hickory: 2.5 TCR = 89% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA NC Hickory safety composite

USA NC Hickory scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

USA NC Hickory: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

USA NC Hickory's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 89% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #91/212
  • PHOTO Comfort Systems USA …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comfort Systems USA Arkansas (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA NC Hickory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA NC Hickory averages 2.5 TCR (89% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

USA NC Hickory TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=5 · BLS 2.8

Where USA NC Hickory falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 212 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in North Carolina.

USA NC Hickory (23 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate USA NC Hickory
USA NC Hickory (23 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

USA NC Hickory has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NC · Hickory

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors 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 Comfort Systems USA Arkansas 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Limbach - New England 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Integrated Facility Services 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tram Lumber, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1417 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4535-1275 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4535-0429 23 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 Roads & Transportation 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LTCS11554 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #132 LAFAYETTE, IN 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Land N' Sea - Kent (DMP) 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AWI Maxi Bay City 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homeland 857 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitehall 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warrensburg- Recovery 23 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. 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.