Hardware Stores · Vermont

Burlington VT

Burlington, VT · ~78 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burlington VT runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Burlington VT: 11.6 TCR = 341% of Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burlington VT safety composite

Burlington VT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.69 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

Burlington VT: 3.3 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Burlington VT's TCR rose 6.4 from 3.3 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 341% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Farm & Home Supply F…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farm & Home Supply Ft. Madison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burlington VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burlington VT averages 11.6 TCR (341% of the Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Burlington VT TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=18.4 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=18.5 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Burlington VT falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Hardware Stores employers in Vermont.

Burlington VT (78 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Burlington VT
Burlington VT (78 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Burlington VT 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
2024 9.7 9.7 8 0 0
2023 18.5 15.0 16 0 0
2022 13.6 12.4 11 0 0
2021 9.7 8.5 8 0 0
2020 8.5 8.5 7 0 0
2019 18.4 18.4 16 0 0
2018 10.2 9.1 9 0 0
2017 12.3 11.2 11 0 0
2016 3.3 3.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · VT · Burlington

1,493 Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 96 employers in Burlington, VT · 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 Farm & Home Supply Ft. Madison 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Valley True Value 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0326 - EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DURANT, OK #03052 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5472-000000610 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Residence at Quarry Hill 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Village of Swanton 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benoit Electric, Inc 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Center Inc 1,483 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102 South Winooski 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1138 Pine 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burton Corporation 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Washington DC HVC 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR United Manufacturing, Inc. 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at Sprenkle Drive 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmington De 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rutherford wine company 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert M Hadley Company, Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE 107CHI 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muskegon Charter Township 78 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.