Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Component Hardware Group

Lakewood, NJ · ~119 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Component Hardware Group runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Component Hardware Group: 5.7 TCR = 260% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Component Hardware Group safety composite

Component Hardware Group scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−380.4

2017→2021

Component Hardware Group injury rate improved

Component Hardware Group's TCR fell 380.4 from 384.6 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 576.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=384.6 · 2018=576.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.0 · 2021=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Lakewood, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 260% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO 4501 LOWE S MSH-DALL…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4501 LOWE S MSH-DALLAS TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Component Hardware Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Component Hardware Group averages 5.7 TCR (260% 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

Component Hardware Group TCR series: 2017=384.6 · 2018=576.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8 · 2021=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Component Hardware Group falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in New Jersey.

Component Hardware Group (119 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Component Hardware Group
Component Hardware Group (119 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Component Hardware Group has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher 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
2021 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2020 8.0 8.0 3 1 0
2019 4.9 4.9 5 0 0
2018 576.9 192.3 5 1 0
2017 384.6 384.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · NJ · Lakewood

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 94 employers in Lakewood, NJ · 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 4501 LOWE S MSH-DALLAS TX 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4512 LOWE S MSH-ORLANDO FL 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4504 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4515 LOWE S MSH-PHILADELPHIA PA 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Delran 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollister Construction Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darling Ingredients 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE LPS Industries LLC 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tender Touch Rehab Services 2,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monmouth Medical Center - Southern Campus 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renaissane Lakewood LLC 598 FTE
NAT-TCR Hall's Calf Ranch 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Singing River Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR GCS 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Boiler Works, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nova Wildcat Shur-Line, LLC 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate at Needham 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE PRECO 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lubohc-015-Lubbock Home Care 119 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.