Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Summers Hardware

Johnson City, TN · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summers Hardware runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Summers Hardware: 3.6 TCR = 162% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summers Hardware safety composite

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

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−3.2

2020→2024

Summers Hardware injury rate improved

Summers Hardware's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=14.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Johnson City, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 162% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO 2807-4506
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2807-4506 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Summers Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summers Hardware averages 3.6 TCR (162% 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

Summers Hardware TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=14.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Summers Hardware falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Tennessee.

Summers Hardware (28 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Summers Hardware
Summers Hardware (28 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Summers Hardware has fewer employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 14.6 10.9 2 2 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · TN · Johnson City

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 177 employers in Johnson City, TN · 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 2807-4506 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Distribution Center Lewisville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endries International Inc SEDC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE K&K Tobacco Farms LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tosh Pork Martin 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Livingston 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lashlee-Rich, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Tennessee State University 4,802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson City Medical Center 2,099 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballad Health 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain States Health Alliance 1,033 FTE
NAT-TCR Ocean Walk 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana Department of Child Services - Morgan County 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1388 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0879 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peterson Tractor Redding 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitewood - 1340 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tyrone Location 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dolphins Cove 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.