Manufacture of drying ovens · North Carolina

Buhler Inc

Cary, NC · ~158 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buhler Inc runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Manufacture of drying ovens workplace, earning a grade A.

Buhler Inc: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Manufacture of drying ovens BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buhler Inc safety composite

Buhler Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−0.6

2022→2024

Buhler Inc injury rate improved

Buhler Inc's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Cary, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO JBT Sandusky
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JBT Sandusky (0.3 TCR gap)

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Buhler Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buhler Inc averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Manufacture of drying ovens BLS benchmark).

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

Buhler Inc TCR series: 2022=0.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Buhler Inc falls in its industry

215 Manufacture of drying ovens establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Manufacture of drying ovens employers in North Carolina.

Buhler Inc (158 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Buhler Inc
Buhler Inc (158 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Buhler Inc has more employees than the Manufacture of drying ovens median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · NC · Cary

215 Manufacture of drying ovens employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, NC · 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 JBT Sandusky 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemini Bakery Equipment Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergreen Packaging 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Automation --- Service Techniques 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wayne Bailey Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtin Co. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glen Raven Custom Fabrics LLC 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR London 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Onex Construction Inc 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Office 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New York Headquarters 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laurence-Hovenier, Inc. 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foliot Furniture 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pneumatic Scale Angelus 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corp 158 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.