Building materials supply dealers · California

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co

Baldwin Park, CA · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co: 5.0 TCR = 146% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co safety composite

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.83 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

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co: 2.2 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2020

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co's TCR rose 5.4 from 2.2 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Baldwin Park, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #75/159
  • PHOTO Greenwich - Byram
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenwich - Byram (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co averages 5.0 TCR (146% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co TCR series: 2018=2.2 · 2020=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 159 Building materials supply deal employers in California.

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co (77 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co
Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co (77 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Nichols Lumber & Hardware Co has more employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2020 7.7 3.8 6 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · CA · Baldwin Park

1,643 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Baldwin Park, 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 Greenwich - Byram 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7344 L&W Supply 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Supply - San Jose 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PJ Currier Lumber 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Innovative Produce, LP 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bokisch Vineyard Management 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bassman 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE COR Chico Business Office 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baldwin Park Unified School District 2,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08881501 BALDWIN PARK HOSPITAL 1,624 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08181501 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN GABRIEL HUB (CASGA) 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR 2253-H4509 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stetson Hardwoods, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Valley Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR UEO N&L Poulsbo, WA Site 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spectrum FAV 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marvin Metal LLC 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coilplus, Inc. Pennsylvania Division 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECKART America - Louisville 77 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: 2020, 2018. 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.