Hardware stores · Wisconsin

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc

Manitowoc, WI · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc safety composite

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
C 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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 - Manitowoc: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Manitowoc, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO TULSA, OK #00064
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TULSA, OK #00064 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware - Manitowoc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace Hardware - Manitowoc averages 5.0 TCR (147% 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 - Manitowoc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=7.3 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Ace Hardware - Manitowoc falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Hardware stores employers in Wisconsin.

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc (25 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 - Manitowoc
Ace Hardware - Manitowoc (25 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ace Hardware - Manitowoc 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
2024 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2018 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · WI · Manitowoc

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 116 employers in Manitowoc, 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 TULSA, OK #00064 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIKEVILLE, KY #03148 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MONROE, GA #03154 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwoods 25 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fergusons Minnesota Harvest LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minocqua Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Janesville Headquarters 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin Office 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Family Memorial Medical Center 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Manitowoc 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Family Medical Center 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Powertrain Systems, LLC, dba Tenneco 462 FTE
NAT-TCR KYTC District 4 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wildman Business Group 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amber Manor Care Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayward Road 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mancini Sheet Metal, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 05 Shrewsbury MA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaumont Terminal 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patrick J. Stepaniak, Inc. 25 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: 2024, 2018, 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.