Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Maine

K.L. Jack and Co

Portland, ME · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K.L. Jack and Co runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

K.L. Jack and Co: 1.7 TCR = 79% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K.L. Jack and Co safety composite

K.L. Jack and Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 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

K.L. Jack and Co: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2023

K.L. Jack and Co's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Portland, ME AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO Oakland
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oakland (0.0 TCR gap)

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K.L. Jack and Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K.L. Jack and Co averages 1.7 TCR (79% 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

K.L. Jack and Co TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where K.L. Jack and Co falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
K.L. Jack and Co (40 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 K.L. Jack and Co
K.L. Jack and Co (40 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

K.L. Jack and Co has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a lower 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
2023 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · ME · Portland

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 244 employers in Portland, ME · 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 Oakland 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid Valley Distributing 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wurth Baer Supply Co BR 90 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hillman Group : Bakersfield DC, CA 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastern Maine Electric Cooperation, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMP - Brunswick Service Building 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prock Marine Company 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.H. Demmons 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC 8,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMC- 22 Bram 5,535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point32Health Portland 4,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMP Practices 2,063 FTE
NAT-TCR WellSpan Population Health Services 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 275/677/881 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WST Westampton 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Loftin Equipment Company Headquarters 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plainwell Pines Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire - Town of Black Mountain 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus Austin 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wapello Specialty Care 40 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: 2023, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.