Hardware stores · Illinois

Ace Hardware Home Center

Round Lake, IL · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Home Center runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Ace Hardware Home Center: 2.2 TCR = 64% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Home Center safety composite

Ace Hardware Home Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Ace Hardware Home Center held a steady TCR band

Ace Hardware Home Center's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.2 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2020=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Round Lake, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/50
  • PHOTO OSH Princeton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OSH Princeton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Home Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace Hardware Home Center averages 2.2 TCR (64% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Ace Hardware Home Center TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Ace Hardware Home Center falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 50 Hardware stores employers in Illinois.

Ace Hardware Home Center (58 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ace Hardware Home Center
Ace Hardware Home Center (58 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ace Hardware Home Center has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IL · Round Lake

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Round Lake, IL · 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 OSH Princeton 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & S Builders Hardware Co. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware of Clarkston 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0339 - BELLINGHAM, WA 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Relay Ops 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - La Salle 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menold Construction and Restoration 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALPA Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake R&D 1,286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter/ Round Lake R & D 975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roundlake, IL -Nationwide Sales Personnel 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baxter Healthcare - Round Lake Drug Delivery 549 FTE
NAT-TCR Trendway Corporation, Holland, MI 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DoubleTree Birmingham 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudolph and Sletten UCSF PCMB #1056697 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Muncie 01 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kamco Building Supply Chester 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Tube Company 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Current Applications, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marine Exhaust Systems 58 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: 2020, 2017. 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.