General warehousing and storage · Georgia

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center

Name: Oatey: Buford Distribution Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buford, GA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 5.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade B.

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center: 3.2 TCR = 55% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center safety composite

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center's TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Buford, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 55% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #287/506
PHOTO Rain Bird Corporatio…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rain Bird Corporation Steele (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Oatey: Buford Distribution Center averages 3.2 TCR (55% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 5.8

Where Oatey: Buford Distribution Center falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #287 safest of 506 General warehousing and storag employers in Georgia.

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center (32 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Oatey: Buford Distribution Center 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	6.3	6.3	2	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · GA · Buford

9,477 General warehousing and storage 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Rain Bird Corporation Steele	STEELE, AL	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Amazon.com Services LLC - LGA9	EDISON, NJ	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1911-19110010-001135	FREMONT, CA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	National Distribution Centers LLC-1240 SH MORGAN PARKWAY	POOLER, GA	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GQF Manufacturing Co.	SAVANNAH	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hatchery	BETHLEHEM	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dahlonega Hatchery	DAHLONEGA	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	South Central Georgia Gin Co.	ENIGMA	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tech Systems, Inc	Buford	478 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elringklinger USA, Inc.	Buford	473 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GAORD - BUFORD CENTER	Buford	447 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Georgia Branch	Buford	428 FTE
NAT-TCR	K&K Solomon Logistics	Spring, TX	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	AGM Container Controls, Inc	Tucson, AZ	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	1704 Kona	Kailua Kona, HI	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	6583 Abilene	Abilene, TX	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Remer Elementary School	Remer, MN	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lakeside Construction Fasteners	Paragould, AR	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	O'Connor Company - Lenexa	Lenexa, KS	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ditzfeld Transfer, Inc.	Sedalia, MO	32 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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