General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Georgia

Dart Transit Buford

Buford, GA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dart Transit Buford runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Dart Transit Buford: 11.0 TCR = 245% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dart Transit Buford safety composite

Dart Transit Buford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Dart Transit Buford: 8.2 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Dart Transit Buford's TCR rose 5.6 from 8.2 in 2017 to 13.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 245% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #162/166
  • PHOTO Tidewater Transit-Fa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tidewater Transit-Fayetteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dart Transit Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dart Transit Buford averages 11.0 TCR (245% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Dart Transit Buford TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2018=13.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Dart Transit Buford falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #162 safest of 166 General freight trucking, long employers in Georgia.

Dart Transit Buford (46 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dart Transit Buford
Dart Transit Buford (46 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dart Transit Buford has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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
2018 13.8 11.1 5 0 0
2017 8.2 4.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · GA · Buford

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Tidewater Transit-Fayetteville 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GSV Transportation Inc 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pittsburgh Fayette Express Inc 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Theodore MOB 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE LITTE CREEK AG, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vision Stairways and Millwork 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cartersville Operating - 10 & 41 Massell Drive Cartersville 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGLC Riverdale LNG 46 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 Holland - WS 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Insulating Glass Company, Sarasota, FL 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Malace International 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 85- Hake 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Klinke Bros. Ice Cream Co 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electrix, LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 46 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: 2018, 2017. 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.