Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware

Princeton, IL · ~557 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware: 3.1 TCR = 139% of Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware safety composite

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2022→2024

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware injury rate improved

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.0 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Princeton, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 139% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO Largo
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~557 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Largo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware averages 3.1 TCR (139% 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

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.2

Where Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware falls in its industry

449 Hardware except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 21 Hardware except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware (557 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware
Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware (557 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Princeton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware has more employees than the Hardware except motor vehicle merchant w 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 2.0 1.0 10 0 0
2023 4.2 2.3 20 0 0
2022 3.0 2.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Princeton

449 Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 33 employers in Princeton, IL · 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 Largo 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Wilmer) 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BBI Suwanee 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimball Midwest Arlington 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE St. Charles - Kirk Road 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2045-00051W 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'FALLON SCHOOL DISTRICT #90 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plexus Corp 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware 610 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Princeton) 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Princeton Facility 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms Inc 385 FTE
NAT-TCR Koweta Indian Health Facility 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Distribution Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Menno, SD 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1780 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mb Labor Contracting Inc 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABF Freight 064 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cagwin & Dorward 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Auto Parts DC 29 557 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.