Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Wallace Hardware Co Inc

Morristown, TN · ~186 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wallace Hardware Co Inc runs at 380% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wallace Hardware Co Inc: 8.4 TCR = 380% of Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wallace Hardware Co Inc safety composite

Wallace Hardware Co Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 8.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−0.5

2017→2019

Wallace Hardware Co Inc injury rate improved

Wallace Hardware Co Inc's TCR fell 0.5 from 8.9 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Morristown, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 380% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO LaForce - Fort Collins
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaForce - Fort Collins (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wallace Hardware Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wallace Hardware Co Inc averages 8.4 TCR (380% 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

Wallace Hardware Co Inc TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=8.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Wallace Hardware Co Inc falls in its industry

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Hardware (except motor vehicle employers in Tennessee.

Wallace Hardware Co Inc (186 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Wallace Hardware Co Inc
Wallace Hardware Co Inc (186 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Wallace Hardware Co Inc has more employees than the Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant 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
2019 8.4 6.5 17 0 0
2018 7.7 3.6 15 0 0
2017 8.9 3.1 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · TN · Morristown

449 Hardware (except motor vehicle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 123 employers in Morristown, TN · 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 LaForce - Fort Collins 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Milpitas 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birmingham Branch 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tifco Industries Inc 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Midway TN Farm 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fletchline Companies 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE 252-PL001 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner Holdings, LLC 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAHLE Engine Components USA, INC. - Morristown 928 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown M1 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Morristown 1 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR Team Technologies, Inc. Morristown, TN 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Lincoln NE 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Helen Owen Carey Residence 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TrueNorth Steel 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 446 Tacoma, Wa 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Exide Technologies-Fort Smith 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE JMF Co inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Coast Sales and Service, Inc. 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwarze 186 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: 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.