Retail Hardware Stores · Illinois

Alton, Il #00703

Alton, IL · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alton, Il #00703 runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Alton, Il #00703: 5.7 TCR = 168% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alton, Il #00703 safety composite

Alton, Il #00703 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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)
C 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Alton, Il #00703: 0.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2023

Alton, Il #00703's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Alton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #32/50
  • PHOTO Sunshine Ace Hardwar…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunshine Ace Hardware-Golden Gate (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alton, Il #00703 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alton, Il #00703 averages 5.7 TCR (168% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Alton, Il #00703 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Alton, Il #00703 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #32 safest of 50 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Illinois.

Alton, Il #00703 (18 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Alton, Il #00703
Alton, Il #00703 (18 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Alton, Il #00703 has fewer employees than the Retail 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
2023 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2020 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IL · Alton

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 75 employers in Alton, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Ace Hardware-Golden Gate 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BONDURANT LUMBER & HARDWARE INC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0486 - ROME, GA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0665 - BROOKSVILLE, FL 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Hollow, LLC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Top of Iowa II.Barton.Winnebego 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - GS Meter Shop and Engr 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Challenge Unlimited 921 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alton Community Unit School District No. 11 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alton Memorial Hospital 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anthony's Health Center 547 FTE
NAT-TCR Champion Foods 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Golf Bonneville 954 Connor St. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marketing Alliance Samples INC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pretium Packaging - Troy 5.7 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.