General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · New York

58-Buffalo Terminal

Tonawanda, NY · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

58-Buffalo Terminal runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade B.

58-Buffalo Terminal: 2.5 TCR = 55% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

58-Buffalo Terminal safety composite

58-Buffalo Terminal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

58-Buffalo Terminal: 1.7 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.06× in 2018

58-Buffalo Terminal's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Tonawanda, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #3/98
  • PHOTO North Platte NE FXFE…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Platte NE FXFE-NPL (0.0 TCR gap)

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58-Buffalo Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 58-Buffalo Terminal averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

58-Buffalo Terminal TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where 58-Buffalo Terminal falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #3 safest of 98 General freight trucking, long employers in New York.

58-Buffalo Terminal (82 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 58-Buffalo Terminal
58-Buffalo Terminal (82 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

58-Buffalo Terminal has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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 5.1 5.1 5 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 7 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · NY · Tonawanda

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (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 North Platte NE FXFE-NPL 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VGS-ODFL 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 103 S. College Drive 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJO-ODFL 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROSLYN-NY74 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiMarco Constructors 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montante Companies 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donnelly Construction Inc 82 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 West Quality Food Service, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Winoa USA Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa Transitional 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 19 - Theisen's - Coralville 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fas Jef 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE HarbisonWalker International Sproul Plant 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport News Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 82 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, 2017, 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.