Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Georgia

Manufacturing General Industry

Buford, GA · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing General Industry runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade D.

Manufacturing General Industry: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing General Industry safety composite

Manufacturing General Industry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Manufacturing General Industry: 3.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2021

Manufacturing General Industry's TCR rose 4.1 from 3.9 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #47/63
  • PHOTO Partitions Plus Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Partitions Plus Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing General Industry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing General Industry averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing General Industry TCR series: 2018=3.9 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Manufacturing General Industry falls in its industry

1,338 Pads, corrugated and solid fib establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 63 Pads, corrugated and solid fib employers in Georgia.

Manufacturing General Industry (47 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Manufacturing General Industry
Manufacturing General Industry (47 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Manufacturing General Industry has fewer employees than the Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 8.0 5.3 2 1 0
2020 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2019 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · GA · Buford

1,338 Pads, corrugated and solid fiberboard, made from purchased paper or paperboard 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 Partitions Plus Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR International paper, Northlake, IL 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sustainable Corrugated Dalton 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlisle Packaging Company, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SS-Harvest South 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Athens TMC 1004 Boulevard Athens GA 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colquitt Electric Membership Corporation - Valdosta 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Austell Operating - 2525 Old Alabama Rd. Austell 47 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 Sheridan Manor 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-937-Pottery Barn 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SCVHHS, Custody Health Services (414) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Asphalt Paving Overhead 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quail Park of Granbury 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKay Dee Surgical Center 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roman Stone Construction Company 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE DB Corporate 47 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.