Hardware stores · Michigan

Gemmen's Home and Hardware

Hudsonville, MI · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gemmen's Home and Hardware runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Gemmen's Home and Hardware: 7.9 TCR = 232% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gemmen's Home and Hardware safety composite

Gemmen's Home and Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Gemmen's Home and Hardware: 4.8 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2018

Gemmen's Home and Hardware's TCR rose 6.3 from 4.8 in 2017 to 11.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Hudsonville, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 232% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #25/34
  • PHOTO Atwoods 21
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atwoods 21 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gemmen's Home and Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gemmen's Home and Hardware averages 7.9 TCR (232% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gemmen's Home and Hardware TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Gemmen's Home and Hardware falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 34 Hardware stores employers in Michigan.

Gemmen's Home and Hardware (54 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Gemmen's Home and Hardware
Gemmen's Home and Hardware (54 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Gemmen's Home and Hardware 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
2018 11.0 6.6 5 0 0
2017 4.8 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · MI · Hudsonville

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 62 employers in Hudsonville, MI · 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 Atwoods 21 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0307 - WORCESTER, MA 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0146 - MARGATE, FL 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR YAKIMA, WA #00533 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Residential Home Builder 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Facility 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS Brinker 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-319 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR HIH INC 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quincy 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kent Quality Foods 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8373_19059 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Roses Express 650 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SG001 - Sage Corporate 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Services S.N.C 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Belting & Transmission Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atrium Post Acute Care of Appleton 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auburn Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Coast Construction Services, LLC. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Valley Health Care, LLC 54 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: 2018, 2017. 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.