General warehousing and storage · West Virginia

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant

Buffalo, WV · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade A.

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant: 1.0 TCR = 18% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant safety composite

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.83× in 2024

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Buffalo, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 18% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/24
  • PHOTO Cincinnati PDC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cincinnati PDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant averages 1.0 TCR (18% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 5.8

Where Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 24 General warehousing and storag employers in West Virginia.

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant (34 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant
Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant (34 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hero Logistics West Virginia Plant has fewer employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · WV · Buffalo

9,477 General warehousing and storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 9 employers in Buffalo, WV · 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 Cincinnati PDC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - iRobot 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 7064 - WP East Lone Mountain Rd 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZAP2 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Laidley Tower 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern WV Paving 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trans Ash, Inc. - Amos 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allnex USA Inc. - Willow Island 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg West Virginia, Inc 2,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR ResourceMFG/Toyota Manufacturing 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR RUSH TRUCKING BUFFALO WV 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR TMMWV 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Cole Papers Sioux Falls 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR D2 Excavating Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hedrick Brothers Construction 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stryten Salina LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Constellation Hospice PA, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warwick Store 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finger Lakes Chemicals, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big R Sparks 34 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.

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

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