Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg)

Fredericksburg, PA · ~453 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg): 7.3 TCR = 334% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) safety composite

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2018→2020

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) injury rate improved

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg)'s TCR fell 1.6 from 7.6 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.6 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Fredericksburg, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 334% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO 2807-4511
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 101 inj
  • SIZE ~453 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2807-4511 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) 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 (Fredericksburg) averages 7.3 TCR (334% 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 (Fredericksburg) TCR series: 2018=7.6 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=6 · BLS 2.2

Where Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Pennsylvania.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) (453 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 (Fredericksburg)
Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) (453 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) 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 6.0 5.8 32 2 0
2019 8.5 6.3 46 1 0
2018 7.6 6.6 23 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · PA · Fredericksburg

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 27 employers in Fredericksburg, PA · 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 2807-4511 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC - HARRISBURG PA 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Service Hardware LLC 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NPPC Allentown 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. - Jersey Shore 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE EQT Corporation - Pittsburgh 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Energy Services, LLC - Pittsburgh 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Pride Inc Plant 3 1,212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Plant 1 1,076 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Pride Inc Plant 2 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Plant 2 546 FTE
NAT-TCR Horizon Health and Rehabilitation 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Force Technologies 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Angelus Block - TX 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cyalume Specialty Products 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2636-California.Offsite Bay Area 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : RDU - Raleigh-Durham 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biomerics FMI 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Load Trail - Sumner 453 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.