Retail Hardware Stores · California

Lake Forest, Ca #00605

Lake Forest, CA · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Lake Forest, Ca #00605: 1.7 TCR = 49% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 safety composite

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Lake Forest, Ca #00605: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 4.99× in 2023

Lake Forest, Ca #00605's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Lake Forest, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 49% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #15/241
  • PHOTO AMARILLO EAST, TX #0…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMARILLO EAST, TX #00072 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Forest, Ca #00605 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Forest, Ca #00605 averages 1.7 TCR (49% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Lake Forest, Ca #00605 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 241 Retail Hardware Stores employers in California.

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 (18 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Lake Forest, Ca #00605
Lake Forest, Ca #00605 (18 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Lake Forest, Ca #00605 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower 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
2023 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · CA · Lake Forest

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR AMARILLO EAST, TX #00072 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRANTS PASS, OR #00811 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paul's Ace Hardware-Scottsdale Store 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ENGLEWOOD, CO #00500 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Hibino Farms LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA, INC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Coast Farms 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM.CLAUSE Davis East Research Station 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Mastercard Cafe * 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaleidoscope Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Remediation Services, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo East, Tx #00072 1.7 TCR

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, 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.