Hardware Store · Wisconsin

ACE Hardware #679

Madison, WI · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ACE Hardware #679 runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware Store workplace, earning a grade F.

ACE Hardware #679: 8.9 TCR = 261% of Hardware Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ACE Hardware #679 safety composite

ACE Hardware #679 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ACE Hardware #679: 0.0 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

ACE Hardware #679's TCR rose 17.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 17.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444140 · Madison, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 261% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Big R of Dumas, LLC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big R of Dumas, LLC. (0.2 TCR gap)

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ACE Hardware #679 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ACE Hardware #679 averages 8.9 TCR (261% of the Hardware Store BLS benchmark).

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

ACE Hardware #679 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=17.8 · BLS 3.4

Where ACE Hardware #679 falls in its industry

90 Hardware Store establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
ACE Hardware #679 (22 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ACE Hardware #679
ACE Hardware #679 (22 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 5.6

ACE Hardware #679 has fewer employees than the Hardware Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 17.8 8.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444140 · WI · Madison

90 Hardware Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 577 employers in Madison, WI · 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 Big R of Dumas, LLC. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of La Junta, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Neck 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Rio Rancho, LLC. 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE URUS Production Shawano Stony Hill 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weston 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Electric Cooperative 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menomonie Service Center 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR EatStreet 1,659 FTE
CITY-NEAR TDS - Junction Road (All Employees) 1,302 FTE
NAT-TCR Aliso Air, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke's Nampa Medical Center, Ltd. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bausum & Duckett Electric LLc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonic Drive-In Roseville #6522 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bralco Metals 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Concrete of Georgia Lithonia 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valero Riga Plant 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1905 Culberson IH 10 Safety Rest Areas 22 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.