Hardware stores · Florida

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral

Cape Coral, FL · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral: 10.3 TCR = 303% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral safety composite

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral: 5.2 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 20.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral's TCR rose 10.5 from 5.2 in 2021 to 15.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Cape Coral, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 303% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #81/100
  • PHOTO LAREDO, TX #00613
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAREDO, TX #00613 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral averages 10.3 TCR (303% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=20.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 100 Hardware stores employers in Florida.

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral (30 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral
Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral (30 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Vision Ace Hardware, Cape Coral 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
2024 15.7 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 20.3 0.0 4 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · FL · Cape Coral

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 116 employers in Cape Coral, FL · 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 LAREDO, TX #00613 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Arden Hills 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLEN BURNIE, MD #00181 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HIALEAH, FL #00346 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACTION SOD & LANDSCAPE GARDENS 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turf Sales of Florida 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Florida 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Coast Village 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 819 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR 819 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gulf Care Inc. 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Sheds Unlimited 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DSM4 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Yellow Creek Coating Services 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Behavioral Health Works 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Care Delaware LLC.-Milford 1 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multiple Systems Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSG - Building Solutions Group, Chicago, IL (GG) 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wills Milling & Hardwoods, Inc 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.