Hardware stores · Tennessee

Germantown Hardware

Germantown, TN · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Germantown Hardware runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Germantown Hardware: 6.2 TCR = 184% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Germantown Hardware safety composite

Germantown Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Germantown Hardware: 3.4 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Germantown Hardware's TCR rose 1.7 from 3.4 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Germantown, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 184% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #20/31
  • PHOTO Town & Country Weave…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town & Country Weaver Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Germantown Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Germantown Hardware averages 6.2 TCR (184% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Germantown Hardware TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Germantown Hardware falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 31 Hardware stores employers in Tennessee.

Germantown Hardware (34 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Germantown Hardware
Germantown Hardware (34 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Germantown 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
2024 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2023 10.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · TN · Germantown

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 34 employers in Germantown, TN · 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 Town & Country Weaver Dairy 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PaulB LLC Mechanicsburg 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, FL #03130 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0120X 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obion County Hatchery 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Germantown 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Clinic PC 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 463 FTE
NAT-TCR Roberts Capitol, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of New Paltz 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Rose Interior Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Central Paradise Valley 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE OEM Columbus 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stratus Roofing 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE RBI-Coldwater, Inc 34 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. 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.