Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Colorado

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, CO · ~276 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs: 3.6 TCR = 163% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs safety composite

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs: 2.6 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2020

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Colorado Springs, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Endries Internationa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~276 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Endries International Inc SEDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs averages 3.6 TCR (163% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=4 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Colorado.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs (276 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs
Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs (276 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.2 3.1 15 0 0
2019 4.0 3.7 11 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 7 0 0
2017 4.4 3.1 10 0 0
2016 2.6 1.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · CO · Colorado Springs

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 832 employers in Colorado Springs, CO · 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 Endries International Inc SEDC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hillman Group : Jacksonville DC, FL 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution Center Lewisville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant City Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE UMC, Inc. - Colorado 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE LivaNova 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denver Processing 276 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0064 - Boulder 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Colorado Hospital Memorial Central 3,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN4 2,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penrose Hospital 2,841 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05070001-050701 PENROSE HOSPITAL 2,391 FTE
NAT-TCR 3217 Keystone Alsip 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Oppermann Webbing 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Commissioner of Public Works of the City of Greenville 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GMB Plastics Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homewood-Flossmoor Park District 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisiana Casualty 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 124 276 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Care 276 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.