Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville

Gainesville, GA · ~244 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville runs at 186% 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, Gainesville: 4.1 TCR = 186% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville safety composite

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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)
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−0.4

2016→2020

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville injury rate improved

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.8 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Gainesville, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #19/25
  • PHOTO Ace Hardware Freight…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~244 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ace Hardware Freight Consolidation Center (Summit) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville 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, Gainesville averages 4.1 TCR (186% 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, Gainesville TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 25 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Georgia.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville (244 employees, TCR 4.1) 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, Gainesville
Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville (244 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Gainesville 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 3.4 2.5 11 0 0
2019 2.7 2.2 6 0 0
2018 4.2 3.3 9 0 0
2017 6.3 5.4 13 0 0
2016 3.8 3.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · GA · Gainesville

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 306 employers in Gainesville, GA · 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 Ace Hardware Freight Consolidation Center (Summit) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TruFit Products Utah 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wesco Aircraft - VTMAE Site 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stainless Steel Fittings LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Lane Office 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highlands 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchor Glass Warner Robins 244 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hoshizaki America, Inc GFN Facility 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. 5,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation 1,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poultry Processing 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc Processing Plant 1,190 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic Precast Concrete, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Aluminum International LLC (Harlingen) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Center for Medical Arts 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carilion Clinic Stonewall Jackson Co. 08 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Germantown Facility 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Academic Medicine Services dba UBMD Internal Medicine 244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer #278 244 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.