Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Colorado

LaForce - Fort Collins

Fort Collins, CO · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaForce - Fort Collins runs at 379% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

LaForce - Fort Collins: 8.3 TCR = 379% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaForce - Fort Collins safety composite

LaForce - Fort Collins scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

LaForce - Fort Collins: 0.0 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.66× in 2024

LaForce - Fort Collins's TCR rose 13.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 13.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Fort Collins, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 379% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Wallace Hardware Co …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wallace Hardware Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaForce - Fort Collins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaForce - Fort Collins averages 8.3 TCR (379% 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 - Fort Collins TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 2.2

Where LaForce - Fort Collins falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Colorado.

LaForce - Fort Collins (24 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 - Fort Collins
LaForce - Fort Collins (24 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

LaForce - Fort Collins has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a higher 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 13.9 13.9 3 0 0
2023 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2022 9.2 4.6 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · CO · Fort Collins

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 268 employers in Fort Collins, CO · 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 Wallace Hardware Co Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Milpitas 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birmingham Branch 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tifco Industries Inc 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Morgan Division 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGL WATER SOLUTIONS, LLC-C9 GROVER 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1555 BLAKE SUITE 400 DENVER CO 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1200 11th Ave Greeley CO 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poudre Valley Hospital 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Collins 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Belgium Brewing Company: Fort Collins 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward Inc. - Lincoln Campus Facility 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonesta Fort Lauderdale 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 7008 - 1-Main 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Axiom Roofing LLC. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 003 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Dade Clinic 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staybridge Suites Bloomington 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Shoreview 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skagit River Reman Company 24 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. 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.