Buffet eating places · Georgia

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta

Valdosta, GA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buffet eating places workplace, earning a grade D.

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta: 3.6 TCR = 121% of Buffet eating places BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta safety composite

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta: 2.5 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2017

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722514 · Valdosta, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 121% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Pinnacle Club
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pinnacle Club (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta averages 3.6 TCR (121% of the Buffet eating places BLS benchmark).

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

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=4.8 · BLS 3.0

Where Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta falls in its industry

31 Buffet eating places establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Buffet eating places employers in Georgia.

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta (52 employees, TCR 3.6) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 11 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden Corral #778Golden Corral 2605JBLM - McChord Food ServicesShady Maple SmorgasbordGolden Corral 2464Bedford CountySchools Bedford County School Food SvcsGolden Corral 584Pinnacle ClubGolden Corral 590Golden Corral 751Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta
Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta (52 employees, TCR 3.6) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Ole Times Country Buffet-Valdosta has fewer employees than the Buffet eating places median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2017 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722514 · GA · Valdosta

31 Buffet eating places employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 167 employers in Valdosta, 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 Pinnacle Club 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ole Times Country Buffet - Gray 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ole Times Country Buffet - Statesboro 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR School Food Service Employees Only 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cleveland Hatchery (CV) 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transmission Support PC Field Services Maintenance Reliability 160 Lake Mirror Road Forest Park 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesboro Operating - 111 Stockyard Rd. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton Realty of Georgia - Atlanta East - Atlanta Realty 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Georgia Medical Center 2,450 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0962 922 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. - All Establishments 886 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Electric Inc. 809 FTE
NAT-TCR US - Supply Chain : 0005 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio Facility 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NC-Charlotte-Operating Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Livonia Hub (Miliv) 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Stonework, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Hartville LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckhead Meat of North Carolina 52 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.