Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Cardinal Health/Buford

Buford, GA · ~200 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Health/Buford runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Health/Buford: 4.6 TCR = 208% of Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Health/Buford safety composite

Cardinal Health/Buford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Cardinal Health/Buford: 2.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2022

Cardinal Health/Buford's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 208% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO 3495-10D8180
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3495-10D8180 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Health/Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Health/Buford averages 4.6 TCR (208% of the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Health/Buford TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Health/Buford falls in its industry

514 Druggists' sundries merchant w establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Druggists' sundries merchant w employers in Georgia.

Cardinal Health/Buford (200 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal Health/Buford
Cardinal Health/Buford (200 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cardinal Health/Buford has more employees than the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 4.5 3.4 8 0 0
2021 6.5 6.5 12 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 7 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 9 0 0
2018 5.7 5.1 11 0 0
2017 5.2 4.7 10 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · GA · Buford

514 Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers 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 3495-10D8180 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10214000 10214000-ABDC KANSAS CITY 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmerisourceBergen-055 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10D8148 PHARMA ATLANTA 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Talley Construction main 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vankirk Electric 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Propex Operaing Company, LLC Ringgold, GA. 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspen Products - South (GA) 200 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 142406-Hnl-Sand Island Carrier Anx 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR OEC Petroleum Systems 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 284686-Liberty Po 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 164284-Lake Zurich Po 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Charles Health System Madras 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2050-20500999-TRANS1 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bright Future Electric - Orlando 200 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.