Hardware stores · Illinois

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East

Elgin, IL · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East: 5.1 TCR = 151% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East safety composite

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.18 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East: 8.3 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.37× in 2019

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East's TCR rose 3.8 from 8.3 in 2016 to 12.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Elgin, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 151% of ind

  • DART 12.2 DART
  • RANK #26/50
  • PHOTO EL PASO NORTH, TX #0…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EL PASO NORTH, TX #00691 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ziegler's Ace Elgin East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ziegler's Ace Elgin East averages 5.1 TCR (151% of the Hardware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=12.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Ziegler's Ace Elgin East falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 50 Hardware stores employers in Illinois.

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East (35 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Ziegler's Ace Elgin East
Ziegler's Ace Elgin East (35 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ziegler's Ace Elgin East 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
2019 12.2 12.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.3 8.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IL · Elgin

1,493 Hardware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 250 employers in Elgin, IL · 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 EL PASO NORTH, TX #00691 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0388 - KANSAS CITY, MO 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PARAGOULD, AR #03108 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0247 - LAKE CHARLES, LA 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Sherman Hospital 1,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elgin John B. Sanfilippo & Son 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Elgin 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR American NTN Bearing Manufacturing Corporation-Elgin 774 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix Inns Salem 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DPI Specialty Foods - Mid Atlantic 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Caniff Electric Supply 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 4279 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Faf Smf 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLARO / PRT - Guaynabo CO 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emterra Environmental USA Corp -Bad Axe 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wl-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Wilmington 35 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, 2016. 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.