Employer · Minnesota

Health One Buffalo

Buffalo, MN · ~500 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Health One Buffalo runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Health One Buffalo: 16.6 TCR = 221% of industry BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Health One Buffalo safety composite

Health One Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Health One Buffalo: 7.9 → 23.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2021

Health One Buffalo's TCR rose 15.2 from 7.9 in 2019 to 23.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 221% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #235/249
  • PHOTO 1855-WIAPP012
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 111 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1855-WIAPP012 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Health One Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Health One Buffalo averages 16.6 TCR (221% 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 TCR series: 2019=7.9 · 2020=18.7 · 2021=23.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Health One Buffalo falls in its industry

6,862 industry establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #235 safest of 249 industry employers in Minnesota.

Health One Buffalo (500 employees, TCR 16.6) 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
Health One Buffalo (500 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Health One Buffalo 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
2021 23.1 18.0 44 29 0
2020 18.7 12.6 40 21 0
2019 7.9 5.0 27 0 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 1855-WIAPP012 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendall Regional Medical Center 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspirus Plover Hospital 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOSPITAL HIMA SAN PABLO.CAGUAS 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0664 - Plymouth 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint John's University 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diocese Crookston 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright County- Sheriff Department 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Bickford of Overland Park 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Truss 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain West Insulation 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6044-West Elm 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Danone North America 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoals Ambulance 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Fairmount 039 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE Original Tommy's 500 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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