Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Oregon

Chown Hardware

Portland, OR · ~87 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chown Hardware runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Chown Hardware: 1.9 TCR = 86% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chown Hardware safety composite

Chown Hardware scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Chown Hardware: 1.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Chown Hardware's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Portland, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Kimball Midwest
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimball Midwest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chown Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chown Hardware averages 1.9 TCR (86% 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

Chown Hardware TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Chown Hardware falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Oregon.

Chown Hardware (87 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Chown Hardware
Chown Hardware (87 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Chown Hardware has more 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 3.7 1.2 3 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.8 2.4 4 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · OR · Portland

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Kimball Midwest 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central MO Field Sales - PLANO TX 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fastening Solutions - Montgomery 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE KCK Farms LLC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNW Boardman 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pence Construction, LLC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terzo Gresham 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Fire Tech Systems, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 28-Dallas Marriott Las Colinas 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-State Drilling 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 30 Catawba Logistics 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 20/20 Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizontal Machining & Mfg. Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE David M. Maines Associates, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Hinton Co. 87 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.