Other Airport Operations · New York

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport

Name: 00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buffalo, NY · ~122 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade B.

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport safety composite

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport: 2.3 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2024

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.3 in 2023 to 4.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

DART 3.5 DART
RANK #61/111
PHOTO 78040003--ICS-AIRPOR…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 78040003--ICS-AIRPORT AATC CONSOLIDATED (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.5
78040003--ICS-

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6935-AV-AVIATI

3.5
DGS Aviation S

3.5
Prospect Airpo

3.5

What this shows 00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 111 Other Airport Operations employers in New York.

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport (122 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

00001085 Buf - 085 Buffalo Niagara Intl Airport has more employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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	4.7	3.5	4	0	0
2023	2.3	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NY · Buffalo

1,555 Other Airport Operations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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	78040003--ICS-AIRPORT AATC CONSOLIDATED	ATLANTA, GA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6935-AV-AVIATION	CHARLOTTE, NC	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DGS Aviation Services : CRW - Charleston WV	CHARLESTON, WV	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Prospect Airport Services MDW	CHICAGO, IL	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Diebold Nixdorf Garden City NY	GARDEN CITY	122 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eltech Industries, Inc	BRONX	122 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lactalis Heritage Dairy	WALTON	122 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4371 North Tonawanda Container	NORTH TONAWANDA	122 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buffalo General Hospital	Buffalo	3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital of Buffalo	Buffalo	2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WNY Independent Living, Inc.	Buffalo	1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital	Buffalo	1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ponce Ground Inc	Rancho Cucamonga, CA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	CRRC MA Corporation Springfield	Springfield, MA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	2nd Home Totowa LLC	Totowa, NJ	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Econolite Group, Inc.	Anaheim, CA	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Sodexo at Hca Southeast Medical Center	Pasadena, TX	122 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Coon Rapids Facility	Coon Rapids, MN	122 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valiant Energy Service, LLC.	Allentown, PA	122 FTE
NAT-SIZE	El Rio Grande Latin Market #6	Fort Worth, TX	122 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, 2023. 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.