Home Centers · Minnesota

Buffalo Mn - 3203

Buffalo, MN · ~204 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Mn - 3203 runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Mn - 3203: 9.1 TCR = 267% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Mn - 3203 safety composite

Buffalo Mn - 3203 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−0.5

2018→2024

Buffalo Mn - 3203 injury rate improved

Buffalo Mn - 3203's TCR fell 0.5 from 9.9 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=9.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 267% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #88/109
  • PHOTO 2265 LOWE S OF AUGUS…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2265 LOWE S OF AUGUSTA ME (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Mn - 3203 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Mn - 3203 averages 9.1 TCR (267% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Mn - 3203 TCR series: 2018=9.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Buffalo Mn - 3203 falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 109 Home Centers employers in Minnesota.

Buffalo Mn - 3203 (204 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Buffalo Mn - 3203
Buffalo Mn - 3203 (204 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Buffalo Mn - 3203 has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher 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 9.5 4.0 12 0 0
2023 7.4 2.2 10 0 0
2022 10.1 5.4 15 0 0
2021 8.6 2.9 12 0 0
2020 8.8 4.4 12 0 0
2019 9.2 4.3 13 0 0
2018 9.9 4.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MN · Buffalo

6,309 Home Centers 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 2265 LOWE S OF AUGUSTA ME 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1905 LOWE S OF GLENWOOD SPRINGS CO 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2663 LOWE S OF SIERRA VISTA AZ 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gilchrist Building Supply, Inc. 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mankato MN (Plant) 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE UMC, Inc. 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A Sween Company-Direct Store Delivery 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE Faribault - Main Store 204 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 Inland Empire 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Slitting Industries LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hugo's Central Bakery 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hazard ARH Professional Office Building 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis East in - 3337 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Grove Il - 3254 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company-Richmond Industries Rd. 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Juneau Construction Company 204 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.