Hardware stores · Illinois

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49

Elgin, IL · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hardware stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Hardware stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 safety composite

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 held a steady TCR band

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Elgin, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/50
  • PHOTO Seright's Ace Hardwa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seright's Ace Hardware Post Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 averages 1.9 TCR (56% 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 Hardware #49 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 falls in its industry

1,493 Hardware stores establishments

Safer than 92% 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 #5 safest of 50 Hardware stores employers in Illinois.

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 (30 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Hardware #49
Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 (30 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ziegler's Ace Hardware #49 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 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 Seright's Ace Hardware Post Falls 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PUEBLO, CO #00068 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwoods 36 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESPANOLA, NM #02986 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 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 Helix Linear Technologies, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex- Houston 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1599 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1512 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Belletetes Nashua 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Yellowstone 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Tractor Santa Rosa 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAS032 DAS AGY Business Partner-DCF 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, 2020. 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.