Hardware stores · North Dakota

Acme Tools - Fargo

Fargo, ND · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Acme Tools - Fargo runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Acme Tools - Fargo: 8.4 TCR = 247% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Acme Tools - Fargo safety composite

Acme Tools - Fargo 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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 - Fargo: 5.1 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2017

Acme Tools - Fargo's TCR rose 6.6 from 5.1 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 247% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO GREAT FALLS, MT #02999
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GREAT FALLS, MT #02999 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Acme Tools - Fargo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Acme Tools - Fargo averages 8.4 TCR (247% 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 - Fargo TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=11.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Acme Tools - Fargo falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #9 safest of 10 Hardware stores employers in North Dakota.

Acme Tools - Fargo (44 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 - Fargo
Acme Tools - Fargo (44 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Acme Tools - Fargo 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
2017 11.7 7.0 5 0 0
2016 5.1 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · ND · Fargo

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, 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 GREAT FALLS, MT #02999 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvin's Summerville 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMARILLO SOUTHWEST, TX #03087 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CENTEREACH, NY #00376 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dickinson Service Center 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchor Mechanical, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Fence Company - Minot 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Graphics, Inc. 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR Wichita Falls (Txwic) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-EJ-20730180-IF 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Philadelphia D&M INC COMCAST 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry & Berry Acquisition, LLC. 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Anita 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Chillicothe Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland Nursing and Rehab LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insys Manufacturing, LLC 44 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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