Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · California

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware

Visalia, CA · ~169 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware: 4.8 TCR = 217% of Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware safety composite

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware: 0.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware's TCR rose 7.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 217% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #29/41
  • PHOTO Custom Service Hardw…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Service Hardware LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware averages 4.8 TCR (217% 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

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware falls in its industry

449 Hardware except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 41 Hardware except motor vehicle employers in California.

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware (169 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware
Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware (169 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Visalia Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware has more employees than the Hardware except motor vehicle merchant w 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 7.1 7.1 17 0 0
2023 7.2 4.8 12 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · CA · Visalia

449 Hardware except motor vehicle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Custom Service Hardware LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrisburg Repair Center 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endries International Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR pewag Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Hoodland Foods LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Olympic Steel Minneapolis Plate 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McCullough Industries DBA MCI INC. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TC Industries, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Froedtert Bluemound Rehab Hospital 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Hilliard 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAHLE Engine Components USA, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roofing by Curry 169 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.