General warehousing and storage · New York

315 Ship Canal

Buffalo, NY · ~97 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

315 Ship Canal runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade B.

315 Ship Canal: 3.0 TCR = 52% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

315 Ship Canal safety composite

315 Ship Canal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

315 Ship Canal held a steady TCR band

315 Ship Canal's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.2 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #78/225
  • PHOTO Berkots Office/Commi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berkots Office/Commissary (0.0 TCR gap)

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315 Ship Canal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 315 Ship Canal averages 3.0 TCR (52% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

315 Ship Canal TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 5.8

Where 315 Ship Canal falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 225 General warehousing and storag employers in New York.

315 Ship Canal (97 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 315 Ship Canal
315 Ship Canal (97 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

315 Ship Canal has more employees than the General warehousing and storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.7 1.7 3 1 0
2020 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2019 3.2 1.3 5 0 0
2018 5.9 4.8 11 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · NY · Buffalo

9,477 General warehousing and storage 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 Berkots Office/Commissary 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S3 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR tkSCS Belvidere 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Adams Companies 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE H2O innovation Operation & Maintenance LLC - O&M New York 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease - Javits 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE LCD Elevator Repair, Inc 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brotherhood Winery 97 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 Paramus #636 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carbon Green BioEnergy, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Abel Womack, Inc. - Lawrence 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Muthig Industries LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MBS Service Company 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medford Horizon 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #260 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #191 97 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.