Hardware stores · Arizona

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store

Fountain Hills, AZ · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store: 2.7 TCR = 79% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store safety composite

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Fountain Hills, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/36
  • PHOTO Attica Ace Hardware
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Attica Ace Hardware (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store averages 2.7 TCR (79% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 36 Hardware stores employers in Arizona.

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store (31 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store
Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store (31 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Paul's Ace Hardware-Fountain Hills Store has more employees than the 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 9.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · AZ · Fountain Hills

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 18 employers in Fountain Hills, AZ · 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 Attica Ace Hardware 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moultonboro NH 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyndonville VT 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0670X 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Health For Life 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE RIGGINS FARMS LTD 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE LPSCO 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Angle Homes, Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0017-0017-01291 FAC-01291-FOUNTAIN HILLS-AZ 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-01291 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fountain View Village 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY 0017 1291 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Smithfield 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Abilene Dirt Cheap 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Division 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Street #040 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE *EMCM Women's Center & GI 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Shale Cleveland County 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caryl Electric Co Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zed Industries, Inc 31 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.