Hardware Stores · Maine

Belfast Me

Belfast, ME · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Belfast Me runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Belfast Me: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Belfast Me safety composite

Belfast Me scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

Belfast Me held a steady TCR band

Belfast Me's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Belfast, ME AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO SAN JOSE, CA #00362
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAN JOSE, CA #00362 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Belfast Me in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Belfast Me averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Belfast Me TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=0.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Belfast Me falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Hardware Stores employers in Maine.

Belfast Me (30 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Belfast Me
Belfast Me (30 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Belfast Me 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · ME · Belfast

1,493 Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 26 employers in Belfast, ME · 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 SAN JOSE, CA #00362 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0460X 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNITED AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE INC- EL CAMPO STORE 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR H. HOUST & SON, INC. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stoner&Co 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAROLD MACQUINN INC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Versant Power Graham Station 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emera Maine Graham Station 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waldo- 118 Northport Ave 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08241 - Store # 8241 Belfast 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mathews Brothers Company 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duck Trap River of Maine 181 FTE
NAT-TCR ATI Industrial Automation 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DiPietro Excavating Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Addison Frame Shop 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South Commonwealth Partners, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benton County Corrections 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landscape Associate of WNY, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tallgrass Surgical Center, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valiant Construction LLC 30 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.