Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Illinois

True Value Company RSC

Chicago, IL · ~499 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

True Value Company RSC runs at 2% 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 RSC: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

True Value Company RSC safety composite

True Value Company RSC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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 RSC held a steady TCR band

True Value Company RSC's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/21
  • PHOTO Charlotte
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~499 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charlotte (0.0 TCR gap)

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True Value Company RSC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows True Value Company RSC averages 0.1 TCR (2% 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

True Value Company RSC TCR series: 2022=0.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where True Value Company RSC falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #1 safest of 21 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Illinois.

True Value Company RSC (499 employees, TCR 0.1) 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 True Value Company RSC
True Value Company RSC (499 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

True Value Company RSC 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.1 0.0 1 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Charlotte 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillman Corporate Offices 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Levittown 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Wayne Headquaters 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Videojet Technologies Wood Dale 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1953-1151 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9733 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook County Department of Facilities Management 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR BASF Agricultural Products de PR 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 42023 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IBP Support Group 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vantage Data Centers 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 11202 Indianapolis 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fll-Ground Ops 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP7 499 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carvana Concord 499 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.

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