Hardware stores · Michigan

Ace Hardware of Clarkston

Clarkston, MI · ~38 workers · 4 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 of Clarkston runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Ace Hardware of Clarkston: 2.2 TCR = 64% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware of Clarkston safety composite

Ace Hardware of Clarkston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 of Clarkston: 0.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2024

Ace Hardware of Clarkston's TCR rose 8.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Clarkston, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 64% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #5/34
  • PHOTO 0339 - BELLINGHAM, WA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0339 - BELLINGHAM, WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware of Clarkston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace Hardware of Clarkston 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 of Clarkston TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Ace Hardware of Clarkston 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 Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 34 Hardware stores employers in Michigan.

Ace Hardware of Clarkston (38 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 of Clarkston
Ace Hardware of Clarkston (38 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 of Clarkston 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 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · MI · Clarkston

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 34 employers in Clarkston, MI · 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 0339 - BELLINGHAM, WA 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSH Princeton 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & S Builders Hardware Co. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware Home Center 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westview Orchards 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Indoor) 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Lakes Packing Co. Kewadin 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE McConnell & Scully, Inc. 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oscar W. Larson Company (Corporate) 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00651 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Plasics 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00709 133 FTE
NAT-TCR Ivy Biomedical Systems, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Angels- Sumner 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Apache Junction 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Leibold Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quintus Technologies, LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Composite Modules Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE State of Indiana - Department of Child Services - Knox 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aprinnova 38 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.