Hardware stores · California

Virgil's Hardware

Glendale, CA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Virgil's Hardware runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Virgil's Hardware: 12.5 TCR = 368% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Virgil's Hardware safety composite

Virgil's Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Virgil's Hardware: 11.8 → 25.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 25.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2021

Virgil's Hardware's TCR rose 13.6 from 11.8 in 2017 to 25.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Glendale, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 368% of ind

  • DART 25.4 DART
  • RANK #203/241
  • PHOTO 0059 - AURORA, CO
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0059 - AURORA, CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Virgil's Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Virgil's Hardware averages 12.5 TCR (368% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Virgil's Hardware TCR series: 2017=11.8 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=25.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Virgil's Hardware falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #203 safest of 241 Hardware stores employers in California.

Virgil's Hardware (30 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 Virgil's Hardware
Virgil's Hardware (30 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Virgil's Hardware has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a higher 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
2021 25.4 25.4 2 0 0
2020 8.5 4.3 2 0 0
2019 12.8 12.8 3 0 0
2018 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 11.8 11.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · CA · Glendale

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 148 employers in Glendale, CA · 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 0059 - AURORA, CO 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VESTAL, NY #00355 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Hardware Center Vidalia 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TUCSON NORTH, AZ #00302 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 604 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 615 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHGL001 - HOSPITAL 2,177 FTE
CITY-NEAR VER Technologies, LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Elk River Senior Living Operations LLC 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RideRight - Reno NV 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZWLG 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brentwood at Elkhart 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE UCG Gin 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solstice Senior Living at Columbia 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solstice Senior Living at Austin 30 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, 2018, 2017. 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.