New car dealers · Minnesota

Morries Buffalo Ford

Buffalo, MN · ~84 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morries Buffalo Ford runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade F.

Morries Buffalo Ford: 7.4 TCR = 218% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morries Buffalo Ford safety composite

Morries Buffalo Ford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−11.5

2017→2022

Morries Buffalo Ford injury rate improved

Morries Buffalo Ford's TCR fell 11.5 from 12.8 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.8 · 2018=7.3 · 2020=8.3 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 218% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #207/240
  • PHOTO John Kennedy Ford, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Kennedy Ford, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morries Buffalo Ford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morries Buffalo Ford averages 7.4 TCR (218% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Morries Buffalo Ford TCR series: 2017=12.8 · 2018=7.3 · 2020=8.3 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Morries Buffalo Ford falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #207 safest of 240 New car dealers employers in Minnesota.

Morries Buffalo Ford (84 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Morries Buffalo Ford
Morries Buffalo Ford (84 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Morries Buffalo Ford has more employees than the New car dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 8.3 1.2 7 0 0
2018 7.3 4.4 5 0 0
2017 12.8 3.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Buffalo

2,847 New car dealers 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 John Kennedy Ford, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inver Grove Hyundai 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROWE FORD SALES 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whited Ford Truck Center 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Newport Service Center 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Contractors, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE OlympiaTech Electric 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Office 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Grandon Farms 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Seafood City Supermarket - National City 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lozier Corporation - Middlebury 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR J.I. Morgan, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Distribution Center 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #009 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trilogy Home Healthcare-Port St. Lucie 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seafood City Supermarket - Rancho Cucamonga 84 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: 2022, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.