Discount Department Stores · Georgia

1206 - Buford

Buford, GA · ~182 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1206 - Buford runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1206 - Buford: 7.9 TCR = 233% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1206 - Buford safety composite

1206 - Buford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

1206 - Buford held a steady TCR band

1206 - Buford's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.3 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.3 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=18.6 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 233% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #104/126
  • PHOTO 1000 - Westminster
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1000 - Westminster (0.0 TCR gap)

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1206 - Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1206 - Buford averages 7.9 TCR (233% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1206 - Buford TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=18.6 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.4

Where 1206 - Buford falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 126 Discount Department Stores employers in Georgia.

1206 - Buford (182 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 1206 - Buford
1206 - Buford (182 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1206 - Buford 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 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2023 18.6 17.7 4 15 0
2022 4.9 3.3 5 1 0
2021 9.7 7.1 3 8 0
2019 3.3 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · GA · Buford

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 1000 - Westminster 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2495 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 231 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0962 - Rocky Mount 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE F&W Forestry Services, Inc 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cortland Build 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Forming LLc 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE LMI Systems, Inc. 182 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 1000 - Westminster 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Day Lee Food, Inc. Union City 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wst Fab 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1216 - Washington 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1253 - Waterfront 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1295 - Greenbelt 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0809 - Janesville 182 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.