Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

LaForce - Cincinnati

Cincinnati, OH · ~38 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaForce - Cincinnati runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

LaForce - Cincinnati: 1.6 TCR = 71% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaForce - Cincinnati safety composite

LaForce - Cincinnati scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2016→2024

LaForce - Cincinnati injury rate improved

LaForce - Cincinnati's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Cincinnati, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/39
  • PHOTO Richelieu America Lt…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richelieu America Ltd ORL (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaForce - Cincinnati in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaForce - Cincinnati averages 1.6 TCR (71% 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

LaForce - Cincinnati TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where LaForce - Cincinnati falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 39 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Ohio.

LaForce - Cincinnati (38 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 LaForce - Cincinnati
LaForce - Cincinnati (38 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

LaForce - Cincinnati 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
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 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · OH · Cincinnati

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 Richelieu America Ltd ORL 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Branch 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whittier-Airgas Safety 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC - IRVING TX 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verano OH CPG - Mothers Grow Best 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Velvet Sod Farms 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pride Transportation Co, Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union City 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Janssen Biotech Inc Horsham 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Park East Sales, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wayne County Hospital 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Aviation - RIL 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE HPC Industrial Services LLC H1226 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Claudio Alvarez Construction Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summers of Marion, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.R. Anderson Constructors 38 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.