Employer · Minnesota

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital)

Buffalo, MN · ~532 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) runs at 210% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital): 15.8 TCR = 210% of industry BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) safety composite

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−15.5

2022→2023

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) injury rate improved

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital)'s TCR fell 15.5 from 23.5 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=23.5 · 2023=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 210% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #231/249
  • PHOTO Steward Trumbull Mem…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~532 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steward Trumbull Memorial Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) averages 15.8 TCR (210% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) TCR series: 2022=23.5 · 2023=8 · BLS 7.5

Where Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) falls in its industry

6,862 industry establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #231 safest of 249 industry employers in Minnesota.

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) (532 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital)
Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) (532 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2023 8.0 4.3 28 0 0
2022 23.5 18.1 36 43 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MN · Buffalo

6,862 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, MN · 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 Steward Trumbull Memorial Hospital 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regina Hospital (United Hastings Regina) 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND,HILLSBORO - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZMPG 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbury Bilenenberg 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olmsted Medical Center Hospital 533 FTE
STATE-SIZE South St. Paul Campus 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright County- Sheriff Department 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Franklin Simpson Nursing and Rehabilitation 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Roof Authority, Inc. 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkview Care Center LLC 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Safety Complex 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pure's Food Specialties LLC 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inogen, Inc. 3 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoological Society of Cincinnati 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEP 2 Beta 532 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.