Building materials supply dealers · New Jersey

Hardware Designs, Inc.

Fairfield, NJ · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hardware Designs, Inc. runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade A.

Hardware Designs, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 33% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hardware Designs, Inc. safety composite

Hardware Designs, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Hardware Designs, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Hardware Designs, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Fairfield, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/40
  • PHOTO Dal-Tile 111 Houston…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dal-Tile 111 Houston North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hardware Designs, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hardware Designs, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (33% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Hardware Designs, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Hardware Designs, Inc. falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 40 Building materials supply deal employers in New Jersey.

Hardware Designs, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hardware Designs, Inc.
Hardware Designs, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Hardware Designs, Inc. has fewer employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · NJ · Fairfield

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 88 employers in Fairfield, 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 Dal-Tile 111 Houston North 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star Lumber West Street 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterford Building Supply 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snohomish WA - PACS 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Diversified Group, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kiely Pipeline Integrity 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockborn Trucking & Excavation, Inc 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Marine Co.DE, LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Middle Atlantic Products-Fairfield 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legrand AV Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1175 - Fairfield 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weiss-Aug Surgical Products 241 FTE
NAT-TCR Murphy Electric & Industrial Control, LLC. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashton Medical Lodge 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Customer Service Group Crystal Lake Repair Center 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dnr Operations Slc 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dover 10534 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead 10250 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE STC Construction, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE J & B Mechanical, LLC 26 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. 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.