Hardware stores · North Dakota

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks

Grand Forks, ND · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks: 6.4 TCR = 188% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks safety composite

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 - Store Grand Forks: 2.2 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2017

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks's TCR rose 8.4 from 2.2 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Grand Forks, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 188% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO 0371 - SOUTH SAN ANT…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0371 - SOUTH SAN ANTONIO, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks averages 6.4 TCR (188% 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 - Store Grand Forks TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=10.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #6 safest of 10 Hardware stores employers in North Dakota.

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks (64 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 - Store Grand Forks
Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks (64 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Acme Tools - Store Grand Forks 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 10.6 8.4 5 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 1 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 0371 - SOUTH SAN ANTONIO, TX 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvin's Fayetteville 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACE HARDWARE WEST 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0682 - ALBEMARLE, NC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John T. Jones Construction Co 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Electric Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.L. Linfoot Comapny 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bismarck - H A Thompson & Sons, Inc. 64 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 0371 - South San Antonio, Tx 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlottesville (Vacha) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR La Grange (Galag) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paramelt Muskegon 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Crane LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caledonia Township 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49- Mt Vernon 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Screw Machine 64 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.