Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

True Value Company

Name: True Value Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~599 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

True Value Company runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

True Value Company: 0.6 TCR = 27% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

True Value Company safety composite

True Value Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

True Value Company held a steady TCR band

True Value Company's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 27% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/21
PHOTO D.B. Roberts, Inc.-W…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 18 inj
SIZE ~599 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D.B. Roberts, Inc.-Wilmington (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows True Value Company averages 0.6 TCR (27% of the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

True Value Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.3 · BLS 2.2

Where True Value Company falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 21 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

True Value Company (599 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

True Value Company has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant median and a lower 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
2020	0.3	0.0	2
2019	0.6	0.4	4
2018	0.9	0.3	6
2017	1.2	0.2	6
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IL · Chicago

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	D.B. Roberts, Inc.-Wilmington	WILMINGTON, MA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Market Center	DALLAS, TX	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Supply Technologies Solon	SOLON, OH	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6200 Phoenix Arizona	PHOENIX, AZ	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HARRAH'S JOLIET CASINO HOTEL	JOLIET	599 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lemont Refinery	LEMONT	598 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smalley Steel Ring Co	LAKE ZURICH	598 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1953-1121	CHICAGO	600 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	Farm	Fabius, NY	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Houston FS (O and G) CRC-Evans	Houston, TX	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Orthofix Inc.	Lewisville, TX	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Schlumberger Bayou Blue	Houma, LA	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	San Luis Valley Health - Regional Medical Center	Alamosa, CO	599 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southview Medical Center	Dayton, OH	599 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Repair Division	Tulsa, OK	599 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DDS West Region - STS	Southbury, CT	599 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.