Hardware stores · California

Miner's Ace Hardware

Grover Beach, CA · ~313 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Miner's Ace Hardware runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Miner's Ace Hardware: 8.8 TCR = 260% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Miner's Ace Hardware safety composite

Miner's Ace Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Miner's Ace Hardware: 7.0 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

Miner's Ace Hardware's TCR rose 4.2 from 7.0 in 2022 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Grover Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 260% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #158/241
  • PHOTO Harris Ace Hardware,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~313 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harris Ace Hardware, LLP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Miner's Ace Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Miner's Ace Hardware averages 8.8 TCR (260% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Miner's Ace Hardware TCR series: 2022=7 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Miner's Ace Hardware falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #158 safest of 241 Hardware stores employers in California.

Miner's Ace Hardware (313 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Miner's Ace Hardware
Miner's Ace Hardware (313 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Miner's Ace Hardware has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a higher 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
2024 11.2 11.2 29 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 23 0 0
2022 7.0 7.0 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · CA · Grover Beach

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Grover Beach, CA · 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 Harris Ace Hardware, LLP 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwoods 38 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0695 - SOMERSET, KY 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0063 - OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silverado Farming Company, Inc. 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2177 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2479 - LA Sunset 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0201 - Sports Arena 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY 0029 2560 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0029-0029-02560 FAC-02560-GROVER BEACH-CA 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02560 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Voler Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-TCR Island County Public Transportation Benefit Area dba Island Transit 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pillars of North County 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspirus Tivoli Community 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LNH- Ward Ct. 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Island Acoustics, LLC 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kershaw Farm Labor Management 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York Botanical Garden 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keolis Div 301, Reno Nevada 313 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. 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.