Home health care agencies · Minnesota

Buffalo Branch Office

Buffalo, MN · ~90 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Branch Office runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Branch Office: 9.1 TCR = 175% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Branch Office safety composite

Buffalo Branch Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Buffalo Branch Office: 6.4 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2022

Buffalo Branch Office's TCR rose 10.0 from 6.4 in 2017 to 16.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.1 · 175% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #108/129
  • PHOTO CareGivers America H…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CareGivers America Home Health Services, LLC Clarks Summit (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Branch Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Branch Office averages 9.1 TCR (175% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Branch Office TCR series: 2017=6.4 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=5 · 2020=11 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=16.4 · BLS 5.2

Where Buffalo Branch Office falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #108 safest of 129 Home health care agencies employers in Minnesota.

Buffalo Branch Office (90 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Branch Office
Buffalo Branch Office (90 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Buffalo Branch Office has more employees than the Home health care agencies 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
2022 16.4 9.1 6 3 0
2021 9.3 9.3 3 2 0
2020 11.0 7.3 5 1 0
2019 5.0 3.4 3 0 0
2018 6.4 3.2 4 0 0
2017 6.4 3.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MN · Buffalo

3,635 Home health care agencies 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 CareGivers America Home Health Services, LLC Clarks Summit 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0845 - CRL 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Porter Hills Home Health West 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Hills Cherry Hill LLC 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy - Owatonna 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Radiant Change Construction, LLC. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weis Builders - Minneapolis 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kelleher Construction, Inc 90 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 497794-Sal-Downtown Sta 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 216052-Met-Johnson St Sta 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 253917-Grand Rapids P&Df 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR River Run Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6938 Mdv Bloomington Dc (in) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1573 D&W -Gr. Rapids, MI PREVO'S #38-3345860 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3361 Fresh City Market (Madison, Wi) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3811 Family Fare (203rd St, Omaha, Ne) 90 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.