Hardware stores · Florida

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula

Wauchula, FL · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula: 3.3 TCR = 98% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula safety composite

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2021→2024

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula injury rate improved

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Wauchula, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/100
  • PHOTO WEBSTER, TX #00493
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WEBSTER, TX #00493 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula averages 3.3 TCR (98% 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, Wauchula TCR series: 2021=3.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #19 safest of 100 Hardware stores employers in Florida.

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula (38 employees, TCR 3.3) 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, Wauchula
Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula (38 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Vision Ace Hardware, Wauchula has more employees than the Hardware stores median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 6.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · FL · Wauchula

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 24 employers in Wauchula, 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 WEBSTER, TX #00493 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MONTGOMERY, AL #00082 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0602 - BARSTOW, CA 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEYER HARDWARE, INC. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Growers Management Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoak Groves Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alva 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSN Customer Service - North 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Citrus Harvesting, Inc. 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 759 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florida Hospital Wauchula 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside TLF, LLC 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Network Retail Admin 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hostess Brands LLC- Chicago 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 184A-Enterprise RAC Company of Baltimore, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DC 81 - Bangor 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Action Messenger Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE TASCO Thompson & Sons 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - GSP 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kruse Tool & Die, Inc. 38 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.