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Home Depot Scores -30 on Health: What the Current Record Shows
Home Depot is a hardware store. It sells lumber, tools, and paint. A -30 on Better Health for All is not the first score you would expect.
It makes more sense when you look at what else is on the shelves.
The Full Scorecard
Current average across scored values: -10. One positive, two neutral scores, and seven negatives.
Why Health?
Home Depot is one of the largest retailers of chemical products in the United States. Pesticides, herbicides, solvents, paints, adhesives, and treated lumber are core product categories. The health score captures:
Product safety. Documented cases of selling products later subject to recall or regulatory restriction. The EPA and state regulators have flagged products available at Home Depot for health hazard concerns.
Worker exposure. Warehouse and store employees handle hazardous materials daily. OSHA records document workplace safety incidents related to chemical handling.
Community health impact. The scale of pesticide and chemical sales through Home Depot locations contributes to downstream health effects tracked by environmental health organisations.
The Environmental Scores
The -50 on Planet-Friendly Business and -40 on Zero Waste reinforce the pattern. A retailer with 2,300+ warehouse-format stores generates significant environmental impact through logistics, packaging waste, and the lifecycle of products sold.
The -40 on Kind to Animals reflects product lines that include rodenticides, insecticides, and animal control products.
What Home Depot Gets Right
The +20 on Respect for Cultures & Communities and +10 on Fair Pay reflect documented community investment programs and employee compensation that, for a retailer, sits above the sector average.
Two positive scores out of eleven. For a household name, that is below average.
View Home Depot's full score on Mashinii.
Primary sources
- HD.US — Home Depot Lead Paint Violations Settlement
- HD.US — Home Depot Sale of Recalled Products Penalty
- HD.US — Home Depot Workplace Safety Violations
- HD.US — Home Depot Safety Violations in Ohio
- HD.US — Home Depot Warehouse Safety Violations Upheld
- HD.US — Concerns Over Use of Prison Labor in Home Depot's Supply Chain
- HD.US — Home Depot Enhances ESG Reporting and Responsible Sourcing
- HD.US — Labor Board: Home Depot Violated Labor Law by Firing Employee Who Drew 'BLM' on Work Apron