Retail Hardware Stores · Georgia

Buford, Ga #02998

Buford, GA · ~17 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buford, Ga #02998 runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Buford, Ga #02998: 5.5 TCR = 163% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buford, Ga #02998 safety composite

Buford, Ga #02998 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Buford, Ga #02998: 0.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Buford, Ga #02998's TCR rose 9.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/46
  • PHOTO STONE MOUNTAIN, GA #…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STONE MOUNTAIN, GA #03349 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buford, Ga #02998 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buford, Ga #02998 averages 5.5 TCR (163% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Buford, Ga #02998 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Buford, Ga #02998 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 46 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Georgia.

Buford, Ga #02998 (17 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Buford, Ga #02998
Buford, Ga #02998 (17 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Buford, Ga #02998 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 9.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · GA · Buford

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 164 employers in Buford, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR STONE MOUNTAIN, GA #03349 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRESNO, CA #00007 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0478 - SOUTH PORTLAND, ME 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEGA Blueberry LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro West - 1088 Concord Rd Smyrna 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Atlanta Central 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlanta Kitchen, LLC Solid Surfaces 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Systems, Inc 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elringklinger USA, Inc. 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR GAORD - BUFORD CENTER 447 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgia Branch 428 FTE
NAT-TCR NKU Norse Commons* 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-025-Muncie ( RK-025 ) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flooring Liquidators, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0739 5.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.