Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Washington

Ballard Industrial Inc

Seattle, WA · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballard Industrial Inc runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Ballard Industrial Inc: 2.1 TCR = 95% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballard Industrial Inc safety composite

Ballard Industrial Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2023→2024

Ballard Industrial Inc injury rate improved

Ballard Industrial Inc's TCR fell 4.2 from 4.2 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO 4507 LOWE S MSH-LAS …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4507 LOWE S MSH-LAS VEGAS NV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ballard Industrial Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballard Industrial Inc averages 2.1 TCR (95% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ballard Industrial Inc TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Ballard Industrial Inc falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Washington.

Ballard Industrial Inc (65 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ballard Industrial Inc
Ballard Industrial Inc (65 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ballard Industrial Inc has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · WA · Seattle

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 4507 LOWE S MSH-LAS VEGAS NV 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richelieu America Lincoln Park NJ 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Points 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 50 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Double R Hop Ranches Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE JR Simplot Company-LL-Pasco Feedlot 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seafisher 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alaska Spirit 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Whirlpool 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Warr Acres 10527 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramage Contracting, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HighPoint Electric Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rich Products Gallatin 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stuart C. Gildred Family YMCA 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRSC Bridgeport 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy 65 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. 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.