Hardware stores · Illinois

Ace Hardware Waukegan North

Waukegan North, IL · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ace Hardware Waukegan North runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Ace Hardware Waukegan North: 6.6 TCR = 195% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ace Hardware Waukegan North safety composite

Ace Hardware Waukegan North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 Waukegan North: 0.0 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.75× in 2024

Ace Hardware Waukegan North's TCR rose 11.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Waukegan North, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 195% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #37/50
  • PHOTO Atwoods 30
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atwoods 30 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ace Hardware Waukegan North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ace Hardware Waukegan North averages 6.6 TCR (195% 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 Waukegan North TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.9 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Ace Hardware Waukegan North falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 50 Hardware stores employers in Illinois.

Ace Hardware Waukegan North (29 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Waukegan North
Ace Hardware Waukegan North (29 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ace Hardware Waukegan North has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a higher 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 11.6 11.6 2 0 0
2023 14.9 14.9 3 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 · IL · Waukegan North

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Atwoods 30 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EVANSVILLE, IN #00089 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMI VALLEY, CA #00032 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINCOLNTON, NC #03232 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Dietz and Watson 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vulcan Industries Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Willamalane Park and Swim Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PA Location 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DELPHS-PDM-DELPHOS 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synthex Organics, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 79 Wright Brothers Avenue Livermore, CA 94551 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE F.M. Kitchens Construction Services LLC 29 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.