General Warehousing and Storage · New York

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5

Lancaster, NY · ~1,188 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5: 10.0 TCR = 172% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 safety composite

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.4

2018→2020

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 injury rate improved

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5's TCR fell 10.4 from 15.3 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.3 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Lancaster, NY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 10.0 · 172% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #201/225
  • PHOTO Rite Aid Distributio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~1,188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rite Aid Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 averages 10.0 TCR (172% 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

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 TCR series: 2018=15.3 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=4.9 · BLS 5.8

Where Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 falls in its industry

9,477 General Warehousing and Storag establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #201 safest of 225 General Warehousing and Storag employers in New York.

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 (1,188 employees, TCR 10.0) 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 Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5
Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 (1,188 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Amazon Transportation Services : BUF5 has more employees than the General Warehousing and Storage median and a higher 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
2020 4.9 4.1 27 2 0
2019 9.7 8.3 21 7 0
2018 15.3 13.5 42 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · NY · Lancaster

9,477 General Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 83 employers in Lancaster, 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 Rite Aid Distribution Center 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BENICIA LOCATION 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN8 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4648-46480005-00258 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2 Penn MSG Corporate 1,189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset Park Health Council Inc 1,187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Women's Specialty Services 1,187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chatham & Ghent Family Care 1,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BUF5 1,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Logistics 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BUF9 665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tops Distribution Center 618 FTE
NAT-TCR South Shore - Resort 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LeClaire MFG Foundry 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR VanBlarcom 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR T&R 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : BNA5 1,188 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Francis Hospital 1,188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-11DA629 1,188 FTE
NAT-SIZE ST. Joseph's Hospital North (5101) 1,188 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.