Discount Department Stores · Minnesota

0861 - Buffalo

Buffalo, MN · ~172 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0861 - Buffalo runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0861 - Buffalo: 6.8 TCR = 200% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0861 - Buffalo safety composite

0861 - Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2019→2024

0861 - Buffalo injury rate improved

0861 - Buffalo's TCR fell 3.6 from 4.9 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.9 · 2021=10.0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 200% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #89/131
  • PHOTO 1015 - New Bern
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1015 - New Bern (0.0 TCR gap)

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0861 - Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0861 - Buffalo averages 6.8 TCR (200% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0861 - Buffalo TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2021=10 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 0861 - Buffalo falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 131 Discount Department Stores employers in Minnesota.

0861 - Buffalo (172 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0861 - Buffalo
0861 - Buffalo (172 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0861 - Buffalo has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.7 8.3 1 6 0
2022 8.2 8.2 1 5 0
2021 10.0 7.5 4 4 0
2019 4.9 4.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MN · Buffalo

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, MN · 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 1015 - New Bern 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1094 - Lexington SE 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1476 - Fayetteville 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2693 - Braintree 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Precision Foods Group- Foley 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosenbauer Motors LLC 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Paul, MN 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR 1015 - New Bern 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1094 - Lexington SE 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1476 - Fayetteville 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Culver Academies 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0812 - Brandon 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0800 - College Station 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1252 - Dayton South 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1470 - Fayetteville 172 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, 2019. 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.