Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing · Alabama

Buffalo Rock

Birmingham, AL · ~384 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Rock runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Rock: 4.9 TCR = 147% of Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Rock safety composite

Buffalo Rock scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 Rock: 1.5 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Buffalo Rock's TCR rose 7.4 from 1.5 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 147% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO Buffalo Rock Talladega
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~384 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buffalo Rock Talladega (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Rock in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Rock averages 4.9 TCR (147% of the Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Rock TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Rock falls in its industry

516 Carbonated soft drinks manufac establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Carbonated soft drinks manufac employers in Alabama.

Buffalo Rock (384 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Rock
Buffalo Rock (384 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Buffalo Rock has more employees than the Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.9 7.2 19 2 0
2023 4.2 3.6 12 2 0
2022 1.5 1.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · AL · Birmingham

516 Carbonated soft drinks manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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 Buffalo Rock Talladega 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AUSTIN C/C IN 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAUREL PKG JOHNSTOWN PA 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mason City Branch 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 6878 384 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbell Power Systems, Inc 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2713 383 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 691 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLASSIC FOODS 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BIRMINGHAM PACKERS 8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6122 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Morelos 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3817 Strongsville 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1522 Golden 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leonard Aluminum Utility Buildings 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sk Food Group - Rno 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Ohio Medical Textiles 384 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winder Price Industries 384 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. 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.