Department stores (except discount department stores) · Georgia

Store 0375 Buford

Buford, GA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 0375 Buford runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade C.

Store 0375 Buford: 3.5 TCR = 104% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 0375 Buford safety composite

Store 0375 Buford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Store 0375 Buford: 1.6 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2020

Store 0375 Buford's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.6 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Buford, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #70/108
  • PHOTO Unit # 0334
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit # 0334 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 0375 Buford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 0375 Buford averages 3.5 TCR (104% of the Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS benchmark).

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

Store 0375 Buford TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 0375 Buford falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 108 Department stores (except disc employers in Georgia.

Store 0375 Buford (90 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Store 0375 Buford
Store 0375 Buford (90 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Store 0375 Buford has more employees than the Department stores (except discount depar 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
2020 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · GA · Buford

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) 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 Unit # 0334 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0478 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 0601 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2135 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Structor Group, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE MetroPower Inc BR 2, 8 & 85 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safe Aire Heating and Cooling Company, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Industrial Inc 90 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 Attentive Care, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Division 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Arends-Awe, Inc. Winchester IL location 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPA Billings DC 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Center for Rehabilitlation and Nursing 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical Office Building 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auto Safety House Phoenix 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Technologies, Inc. 90 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: 2020, 2019. 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.