Industrial Launderers · Georgia

008m - Buford

Buford, GA · ~61 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

008m - Buford runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial Launderers workplace, earning a grade B.

008m - Buford: 1.4 TCR = 67% of Industrial Launderers BLS 2.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

008m - Buford safety composite

008m - Buford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

008m - Buford: 0.0 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2024

008m - Buford's TCR rose 6.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812332 · Buford, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 67% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #8/27
  • PHOTO 314 - EVANSVILLE
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 314 - EVANSVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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008m - Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 008m - Buford averages 1.4 TCR (67% of the Industrial Launderers BLS benchmark).

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

008m - Buford TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 2.1

Where 008m - Buford falls in its industry

917 Industrial Launderers establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 27 Industrial Launderers employers in Georgia.

008m - Buford (61 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 008m - Buford
008m - Buford (61 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1

008m - Buford has fewer employees than the Industrial Launderers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 6.8 2.7 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812332 · GA · Buford

917 Industrial Launderers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 164 employers in Buford, GA · 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 314 - EVANSVILLE 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 459 - JOPLIN 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 216 - GREENVILLE 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 716 - MUNCIE 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbus, GA 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altamaha EMC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shallowford Operating 4404 North Shallowford Rd 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Systems, Inc 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elringklinger USA, Inc. 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR GAORD - BUFORD CENTER 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgia Branch 428 FTE
NAT-TCR 314 - Evansville 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Baptist -N Miss 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR M7313 Baptist Healt 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Qualcomm SD Admin 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 058k - Orlando 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Norwich: Fire Department 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5015096 - SFO Terminal 1C 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa - Ventura 61 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, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.