Lawn Care · New York

5678 - Buffalo North

Amherst, NY · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5678 - Buffalo North runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade F.

5678 - Buffalo North: 10.7 TCR = 237% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5678 - Buffalo North safety composite

5678 - Buffalo North scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

5678 - Buffalo North: 7.8 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

5678 - Buffalo North's TCR rose 5.4 from 7.8 in 2020 to 13.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Amherst, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 237% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #81/92
  • PHOTO Teufel Landscape - C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teufel Landscape - Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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5678 - Buffalo North in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5678 - Buffalo North averages 10.7 TCR (237% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5678 - Buffalo North TCR series: 2020=7.8 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=11.3 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 5678 - Buffalo North falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #81 safest of 92 Lawn Care employers in New York.

5678 - Buffalo North (30 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 5678 - Buffalo North
5678 - Buffalo North (30 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5678 - Buffalo North 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 13.1 13.1 4 0 0
2023 10.6 7.1 3 0 0
2022 11.3 7.5 3 0 0
2021 10.5 10.5 3 0 0
2020 7.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · NY · Amherst

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 112 employers in Amherst, 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 Teufel Landscape - Corporate 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAGIMO CORPORATION INC dba J & G LAWN & GARDEN 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5611 - Columbia-MO 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rea Landscape Management LLC. 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hemdale Farms Inc 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE My Forest Foods 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Part 2 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.W. Patterson, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Alberta Dr 082 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alberta Drive 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Niagara Falls 086 452 FTE
NAT-TCR John Deere Regional Distribution Center - Portland 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dillon 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Highline Water District 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowbrook at Bloomer 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5640 - Minnetonka 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5344 - Carrollton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5033 - York 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Livoak-B5510-Afh- Live Oak Store 30 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. 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.