Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton)

Princeton, IL · ~591 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton): 2.3 TCR = 105% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) safety composite

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−0.5

2016→2020

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) injury rate improved

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton)'s TCR fell 0.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Princeton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #10/21
  • PHOTO Northeast Billerica …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~591 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northeast Billerica Plant and Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) 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 (Princeton) averages 2.3 TCR (105% 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 (Princeton) TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 2.2

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

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 21 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) (591 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 (Princeton)
Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) (591 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a lower 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 2.5 1.0 12 1 0
2019 2.0 0.2 10 0 0
2018 1.2 0.2 6 0 0
2017 2.8 2.4 13 0 0
2016 3.0 1.7 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Princeton

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 33 employers in Princeton, IL · 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 Northeast Billerica Plant and Branch 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4518 LOWE S MSH-DENVER CO 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moxee Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fehr Bros Industries Inc 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Georgia Nut 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE 155 Industrial Drive 592 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louis A Weiss Memorial Medical Center LLC 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arlington Heights Park District 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Inc 385 FTE
NAT-TCR Glatfelter Fort Smith 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR S&K Building Services 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MGI-5400 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Asplundh-Region 039 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Toledo Zoo 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE 050224-Anaheim Ca P&Dc 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNH_Fargo 591 FTE
NAT-SIZE WI-Green Bay-Glory 591 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.