Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Global Equipment Company - GA

Buford, GA · ~422 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Global Equipment Company - GA runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Global Equipment Company - GA: 3.0 TCR = 136% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Global Equipment Company - GA safety composite

Global Equipment Company - GA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.5

2016→2020

Global Equipment Company - GA injury rate improved

Global Equipment Company - GA's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3.0 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Branch 350 - PMI
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~422 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 350 - PMI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Global Equipment Company - GA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Global Equipment Company - GA averages 3.0 TCR (136% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Global Equipment Company - GA TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=3 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Global Equipment Company - GA falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 21 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Georgia.

Global Equipment Company - GA (422 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Global Equipment Company - GA
Global Equipment Company - GA (422 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Global Equipment Company - GA has more employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 1.8 1.1 7 1 0
2019 4.5 3.8 18 1 0
2018 3.0 1.8 13 0 0
2017 3.5 3.3 15 0 0
2016 2.3 1.1 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · GA · Buford

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) 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 Branch 350 - PMI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem Fabrication Technologies Group, Inc. - North Carolina 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Louisville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WI003 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chief Specialty Packaging 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central EMS 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Mills Covington Site 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspen Products, Inc. 423 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 Advanced Surgical Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte Sort Center -42 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Marriott Suites Deerfield 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CCW - Terrell 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Wilton) 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE 263 Aut - Greensboro 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supreme Midwest 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Nashville - 0685 422 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: 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.