Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham

Birmingham, AL · ~315 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham runs at 461% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham: 10.1 TCR = 461% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham safety composite

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Company - Birmingham: 9.5 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2017

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham's TCR rose 1.3 from 9.5 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 461% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO MEDFORD OR
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MEDFORD OR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham averages 10.1 TCR (461% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=10.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Alabama.

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham (315 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham
Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham (315 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Buffalo Rock Company - Birmingham has more employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2017 10.8 7.7 30 1 0
2016 9.5 8.3 31 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · AL · Birmingham

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers 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 MEDFORD OR 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR C415 Beaufort 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ST PETERSBURG FL 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CORDELE GA 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vulcraft of Alabama Inc. 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4407 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARD LOGISTICS, LLC - PLANT2 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS Companies Lincoln Alabama 315 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 CNH_Wichita 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Camp Hill 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 408 ABC Supply Co., inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Moeller Entity 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Envigo 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Remote Sorting Faciltiy 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Grand Desert, Las Vegas 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambria Care Center 315 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: 2017, 2016. 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.