Discount Department Stores · New York

1013 - North Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~198 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1013 - North Buffalo runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1013 - North Buffalo: 12.8 TCR = 376% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1013 - North Buffalo safety composite

1013 - North Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−2.8

2019→2024

1013 - North Buffalo injury rate improved

1013 - North Buffalo's TCR fell 2.8 from 5.6 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 40.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.6 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=40.5 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 376% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #150/156
  • PHOTO Unit #0058
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit #0058 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1013 - North Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1013 - North Buffalo averages 12.8 TCR (376% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1013 - North Buffalo TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=40.5 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1013 - North Buffalo falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 156 Discount Department Stores employers in New York.

1013 - North Buffalo (198 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1013 - North Buffalo
1013 - North Buffalo (198 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1013 - North Buffalo has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2023 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2022 40.5 39.6 3 44 0
2021 11.3 5.7 4 10 0
2019 5.6 3.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NY · Buffalo

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Unit #0058 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewiston Store 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1834 - Upland 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1270 - West Mifflin 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE E W Howell Co LLC 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Murnane Construction Services, Inc. 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rifenburg Construction Inc. 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific BO 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Sacramento 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Schroeder Movings Systems Inc 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D3 Ottawa Yard 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0923 - Woodhaven 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1360 - Phoenix NE 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0245 - Lancaster 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1499 - Opelika 198 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.