Lawn Care · New York

5515 - Buffalo

Orchard Park, NY · ~47 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5515 - Buffalo runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade F.

5515 - Buffalo: 9.3 TCR = 206% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5515 - Buffalo safety composite

5515 - Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−4.9

2017→2024

5515 - Buffalo injury rate improved

5515 - Buffalo's TCR fell 4.9 from 14.5 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.5 · 2018=5.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Orchard Park, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 206% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #77/92
  • PHOTO 5731 - DC South
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 5731 - DC South (0.0 TCR gap)

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5515 - Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5515 - Buffalo averages 9.3 TCR (206% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5515 - Buffalo TCR series: 2017=14.5 · 2018=5.4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where 5515 - Buffalo falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 92 Lawn Care employers in New York.

5515 - Buffalo (47 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5515 - Buffalo
5515 - Buffalo (47 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5515 - Buffalo has fewer employees than the Lawn Care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 9.6 6.4 3 0 0
2023 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2022 13.2 10.5 5 0 0
2021 11.2 11.2 4 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 5.4 5.4 3 0 0
2017 14.5 12.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NY · Orchard Park

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 72 employers in Orchard Park, 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 5731 - DC South 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TWIN LAKES NURSERY 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeVisser Landscape Services, Inc 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stamford, CT 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Bliss, NY 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brightly Farms, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Jacket Orchards 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barbland Dairy LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Systems Orchard Park 455 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSD ORCHARD PARK 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR McGard llc 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10 Cobham 420 FTE
NAT-TCR Bi-Mart Distribution Center 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grimmius Cattle Company, Inc. - Home Ranch 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLV7 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miner Enterprises 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5335 - Seattle South 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5150 - Louisville 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5029 - Raleigh South 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5799 - Grand Rapids 47 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, 2018, 2017. 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.