Variety Stores · New York

4186-21551

Buffalo, NY · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4186-21551 runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Variety Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

4186-21551: 5.6 TCR = 164% of Variety Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4186-21551 safety composite

4186-21551 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

4186-21551: 0.0 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

4186-21551's TCR rose 11.2 from 0.0 in 2020 to 11.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452319 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #46/90
  • PHOTO 4186-05067
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4186-05067 (0.0 TCR gap)

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4186-21551 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4186-21551 averages 5.6 TCR (164% of the Variety Stores BLS benchmark).

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

4186-21551 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=11.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 4186-21551 falls in its industry

1,513 Variety Stores establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 90 Variety Stores employers in New York.

4186-21551 (37 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 4186-21551
4186-21551 (37 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8

4186-21551 has more employees than the Variety Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2021 11.2 11.2 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452319 · NY · Buffalo

1,513 Variety 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 4186-05067 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-06407 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses 496 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-06291 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kludt Brothers Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hamptonburgh 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cruikshank Farms LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main farm 37 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 Main Location 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEX Transport (ELP) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NEX Transport (MAP) 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MMK Brea 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wagner Heights Residential 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookline Ice Company 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Industries - Plant 2 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Therm-Con #744 37 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: 2021, 2020. 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.