Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · Georgia

Buford Plant

Buford, GA · ~21 workers · 6 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

Buford Plant runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buford Plant: 4.9 TCR = 147% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buford Plant safety composite

Buford Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Buford Plant held a steady TCR band

Buford Plant's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=12.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/55
  • PHOTO Sargent Materials - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sargent Materials - RediMix Concrete (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buford Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buford Plant averages 4.9 TCR (147% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Buford Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=12.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Buford Plant falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 55 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in Georgia.

Buford Plant (21 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 Buford Plant
Buford Plant (21 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Buford Plant has fewer employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2019 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2017 12.9 12.9 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · GA · Buford

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sargent Materials - RediMix Concrete 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Ready Mix Co. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conway Ready Mix Plant 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Builders Concrete East, LLC - North Windham 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seven Hills Forestry LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrim's Pride Commerce Hatchery 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Gin, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cochran Oil Mill & Ginnery 21 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 Lakeside Industries (080) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR A.R.E. - Dundee, OH 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-204) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-40417) 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandy Fork 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Pleasant 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Am-Ex 709 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Granger Plastics Company 21 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.