Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Richelieu Hardware

Hanover Park, IL · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richelieu Hardware runs at 528% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Richelieu Hardware: 11.6 TCR = 528% of Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richelieu Hardware safety composite

Richelieu Hardware scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−16.5

2019→2021

Richelieu Hardware injury rate improved

Richelieu Hardware's TCR fell 16.5 from 16.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=16.5 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Hanover Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 528% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO DC - Dayton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DC - Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richelieu Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richelieu Hardware averages 11.6 TCR (528% of the Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Richelieu Hardware TCR series: 2019=16.5 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Richelieu Hardware falls in its industry

449 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merc establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #21 safest of 21 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merc employers in Illinois.

Richelieu Hardware (28 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Richelieu Hardware
Richelieu Hardware (28 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Richelieu Hardware has fewer employees than the Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant whole 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 18.3 18.3 4 0 0
2019 16.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Hanover Park

449 Blades (e.g., knife, saw) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 51 employers in Hanover Park, 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 DC - Dayton 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4502 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DC - VISALIA, CA 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vertex - Attleboro 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pentair Filtration Solutions, LLC - Hanover Park 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR MWD 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camcraft, Inc. 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanover Park 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Abilene Beverages 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rahn Home Services 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZCHT 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 10501 Drummond Rd 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alloy Hardfacing and Engineering Co., Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCI Charlotte ISS 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE ServiceMaster Anytime 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Energy- MA 28 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: 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.