Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing · Idaho

Buck Knives, Inc

Post Falls, ID · ~324 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buck Knives, Inc runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buck Knives, Inc: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buck Knives, Inc safety composite

Buck Knives, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−8.1

2018→2024

Buck Knives, Inc injury rate improved

Buck Knives, Inc's TCR fell 8.1 from 13.4 in 2018 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.4 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332215 · Post Falls, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO Vollrath Company LLC…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 99 inj
  • SIZE ~324 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vollrath Company LLC, Menomonee Falls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buck Knives, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buck Knives, Inc averages 6.1 TCR (186% of the Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buck Knives, Inc TCR series: 2018=13.4 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Buck Knives, Inc falls in its industry

52 Cutlery, nonprecious and preci establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Buck Knives, Inc (324 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buck Knives, Inc
Buck Knives, Inc (324 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Buck Knives, Inc has more employees than the Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 5.3 4.3 16 0 0
2023 4.2 0.9 14 0 0
2022 1.5 1.2 4 1 0
2021 4.8 4.3 16 0 0
2020 8.1 4.9 14 1 0
2019 5.7 2.4 11 1 0
2018 13.4 2.9 24 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332215 · ID · Post Falls

52 Cutlery, nonprecious and precious plated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 67 employers in Post Falls, ID · 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 Vollrath Company LLC, Menomonee Falls 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regal Ware, INC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenge Tool Mfg. Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Kewaunee East 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin County Medical Center 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Materne North America 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boise 322 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0773 - COEUR D'ALENE ID WHSE 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3472 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3472 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4395 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4395 248 FTE
NAT-TCR Agenda: USA, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Allstate Beverage Company 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard at Mount Tabor 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stamford Hilton 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smallwood Management Company 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE F & H Contractors 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgemere 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emergent BioSolutions 324 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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