Home centers, building materials · California

El Centro Ace Hardware

El Centro, CA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Centro Ace Hardware runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

El Centro Ace Hardware: 4.8 TCR = 141% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Centro Ace Hardware safety composite

El Centro Ace Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

El Centro Ace Hardware: 4.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

El Centro Ace Hardware's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.6 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · El Centro, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 141% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #302/496
  • PHOTO MADISON WEST WI - 3058
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MADISON WEST WI - 3058 (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Centro Ace Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Centro Ace Hardware averages 4.8 TCR (141% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

El Centro Ace Hardware TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.4

Where El Centro Ace Hardware falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #302 safest of 496 Home centers, building materia employers in California.

El Centro Ace Hardware (20 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate El Centro Ace Hardware
El Centro Ace Hardware (20 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

El Centro Ace Hardware has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · CA · El Centro

6,309 Home centers, building materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 91 employers in El Centro, CA · 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 MADISON WEST WI - 3058 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1975 OSWEGO 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2334 LOWE S OF TURLOCK CA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0004 LOWE S OF RAINIER WA. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Imperial 2,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR JJ HARVESTING 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 350 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro 971 FTE
NAT-TCR Nuvar West 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyodo Yushi Manufacturing Americas LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brill Seating Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wrico Stamping of Wisconsin 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Texarkana 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley Valley Medical Center LLC - EVS 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branan Lodge 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jenison 20 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.