Home Centers · Georgia

0147 Buford

Buford, GA · ~101 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0147 Buford runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade B.

0147 Buford: 2.6 TCR = 77% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0147 Buford safety composite

0147 Buford scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

0147 Buford: 1.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

0147 Buford's TCR rose 3.3 from 1.0 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Buford, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 77% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #28/232
  • PHOTO Kellogg Supply Compa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kellogg Supply Company, Inc. - Edenton Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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0147 Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0147 Buford averages 2.6 TCR (77% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

0147 Buford TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 0147 Buford falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 232 Home Centers employers in Georgia.

0147 Buford (101 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0147 Buford
0147 Buford (101 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

0147 Buford has more employees than the Home Centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.3 3.2 4 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · GA · Buford

6,309 Home Centers 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 Kellogg Supply Company, Inc. - Edenton Location 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3903 S TULSA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8419 ORANGE 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6210 W HARTFORD 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Regional Express ATL Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jones County Nursing Homes 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affinity Building Systems 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE 120483-ATL-RALPH MCGILL CARRIER ANX 101 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 Memphis Manufacturing Facility 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Radio Hotel 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardent Mills Chattanooga 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fye Excavating, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Water District Laboratory Services Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glyndon Site 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rehabilitation Center of Des Moines 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bleigh Construction Company 101 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. 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.