Couriers and Express Delivery Services · Georgia

Gaord - Buford Center

Buford, GA · ~447 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaord - Buford Center runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade B.

Gaord - Buford Center: 4.5 TCR = 68% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaord - Buford Center safety composite

Gaord - Buford Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gaord - Buford Center: 1.7 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Gaord - Buford Center's TCR rose 5.4 from 1.7 in 2022 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Buford, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 68% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #48/210
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~447 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DSX5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaord - Buford Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaord - Buford Center averages 4.5 TCR (68% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Gaord - Buford Center TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Gaord - Buford Center falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 210 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in Georgia.

Gaord - Buford Center (447 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaord - Buford Center
Gaord - Buford Center (447 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Gaord - Buford Center has more employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 7.1 5.6 33 1 0
2023 4.5 4.3 19 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · GA · Buford

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DSX5 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGR6 Station 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 5935 SURREY STREET 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Things LLC 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Foodservice : COVINGTON 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sales - Region 2 - Alpharetta, GA 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3403 447 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lund International 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Systems, Inc 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elringklinger USA, Inc. 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgia Branch 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Equipment Company - GA 422 FTE
NAT-TCR CTG Leasing 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AWL Transport, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville, TN 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Polyurethane Specialties Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Graham Industrial Maintenance Inc. 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGAS-UT90 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cushman and Wakefield Citibank Account 447 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SNC3 447 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.