Hardware stores · North Carolina

Town & Country Hardware

Chapel Hill, NC · ~109 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town & Country Hardware runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Town & Country Hardware: 2.4 TCR = 70% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town & Country Hardware safety composite

Town & Country Hardware scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Town & Country Hardware: 1.2 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Town & Country Hardware's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.2 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Chapel Hill, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/40
  • PHOTO SPENCE HARDWARE AND …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SPENCE HARDWARE AND SUPPLY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town & Country Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town & Country Hardware averages 2.4 TCR (70% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Town & Country Hardware TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Town & Country Hardware falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 40 Hardware stores employers in North Carolina.

Town & Country Hardware (109 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Town & Country Hardware
Town & Country Hardware (109 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Town & Country Hardware 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
2022 2.1 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 3 0 0
2019 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2018 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NC · Chapel Hill

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, NC · 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 SPENCE HARDWARE AND SUPPLY 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peoria S & S Pioneer 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Financiadora Caguas Commercial Co. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN ANTONIO NW, TX #00463 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Graham 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaines and company Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
NAT-TCR Agri Supply of Florence 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gavilon Grain - Amarillo 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Glen System Administration office 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CWI-Clinical/Health Services 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mathiowetz Construction Company 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PS-GSP-GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-GSP-PSAA 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statesman Health and Rehabilitation Center 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Krapf School Bus NJN 109 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.