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

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA

Buford, GA · ~421 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA: 1.6 TCR = 71% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA safety composite

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−1.6

2021→2024

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA injury rate improved

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.4 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.4 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.0 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Buford, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 71% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/21
  • PHOTO ENA - Sacramento
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~421 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ENA - Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA averages 1.6 TCR (71% 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 Industrial Co. - Buford, GA TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=2 · 2023=1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #5 safest of 21 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Georgia.

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA (421 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Industrial Co. - Buford, GA
Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA (421 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Global Industrial Co. - Buford, GA has more employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower 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
2024 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2023 1.0 0.5 4 0 0
2022 2.0 1.2 7 1 0
2021 2.4 1.9 8 2 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 ENA - Sacramento 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weimer Bearing & Transmission, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SouthernCarlson - Wylie 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 203412 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Mills Covington Site 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toto USA Morrow Plant 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairburn (Oakley Industrial Blvd.) 421 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chief Specialty Packaging 422 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 Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 442 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Medical Center, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinton 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Berkots 325 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auburn Hills 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holcomb Bus Service 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Helpers Canton Nursing Home, Inc. dba Maplewood Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 421 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Plastics Inc. 421 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.