Freight Trucking LTL · New York

205 Buffalo

Tonawanda, NY · ~317 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

205 Buffalo runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade F.

205 Buffalo: 10.7 TCR = 238% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

205 Buffalo safety composite

205 Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 17% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

11/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

205 Buffalo: 9.2 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

205 Buffalo's TCR rose 3.1 from 9.2 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Tonawanda, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 238% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #75/98
  • PHOTO XBH
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~317 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: XBH (0.0 TCR gap)

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205 Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 205 Buffalo averages 10.7 TCR (238% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

205 Buffalo TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2018=12.3 · BLS 4.5

Where 205 Buffalo falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 98 Freight Trucking LTL employers in New York.

205 Buffalo (317 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 205 Buffalo
205 Buffalo (317 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

205 Buffalo has more employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 12.3 7.7 32 0 1
2016 9.2 4.6 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NY · Tonawanda

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, 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 XBH 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montpelier 188 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMT 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NML 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2850 - Brooklyn Fulton St 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Express & Logistics 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSEG LI Meter Services 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family Service Society of Yonkers 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR Denver (Cocmr) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Asheville (Ncash) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashua (Nhnas) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 367 ABC Supply Co., Inc 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE B&G Foods Snacks, Inc. 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center Square Supermarket LLC 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nemacolin (460) 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newbury Park (Westlake) Center (Canew) 317 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: 2018, 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.