Hardware stores · North Dakota

Acme Tools - Corporate Office

Grand Forks, ND · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Acme Tools - Corporate Office runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Acme Tools - Corporate Office: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Acme Tools - Corporate Office safety composite

Acme Tools - Corporate Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Acme Tools - Corporate Office: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Acme Tools - Corporate Office's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Grand Forks, ND AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Ace Hardware
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ace Hardware (0.0 TCR gap)

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Acme Tools - Corporate Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Acme Tools - Corporate Office averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Acme Tools - Corporate Office TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Acme Tools - Corporate Office falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Hardware stores employers in North Dakota.

Acme Tools - Corporate Office (71 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Acme Tools - Corporate Office
Acme Tools - Corporate Office (71 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Acme Tools - Corporate Office has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a lower 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
2017 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · ND · Grand Forks

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 175 employers in Grand Forks, ND · 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 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Qualheims True Value 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-002M 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HQ East 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mowbray and Son Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amity Technology, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3701 FARGO 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3128 FAMILY FARE WEST BISMARCK 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altru Health System Med Park 2,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR LM Wind Power 907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LM Wind Power : Grand Forks 614 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Eldercare Center 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aerospace-York 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 3192-00 Whirlpool/Seattle, WA 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AmNav - Oakland 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden City Container 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hampshire Location #09 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Lighting Mountain Top RDC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kincaid Ready Mix 71 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: 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.