Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing · New York

API Heat Transfer Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~195 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

API Heat Transfer Buffalo runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

API Heat Transfer Buffalo: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

API Heat Transfer Buffalo safety composite

API Heat Transfer Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

API Heat Transfer Buffalo: 3.2 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

API Heat Transfer Buffalo's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.2 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332410 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Lytron Inc now known…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lytron Inc now known as Boyd Corporation (Woburn), Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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API Heat Transfer Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows API Heat Transfer Buffalo averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

API Heat Transfer Buffalo TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where API Heat Transfer Buffalo falls in its industry

171 Aftercoolers (i.e., heat excha establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Aftercoolers (i.e., heat excha employers in New York.

API Heat Transfer Buffalo (195 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate API Heat Transfer Buffalo
API Heat Transfer Buffalo (195 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.9

API Heat Transfer Buffalo has more employees than the Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.1 2.0 7 1 0
2023 3.2 1.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332410 · NY · Buffalo

171 Aftercoolers (i.e., heat exchangers) manufacturing 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 Lytron Inc now known as Boyd Corporation (Woburn), Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Super Radiator Coils 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmersville, IL 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY83 AMETEK HUGHES TREITLER 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Giroux's Poultry Farm, Inc. 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skanska-Ecco III-HPA JV 90007820 Hunts Point 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE FSE Five Star Electric Corp. 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.J. Cassone Bakery, Inc. 195 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 Dkm Manufacturing Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DZ Block Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Geiser Grand Hotel 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boeing Distribution Services Inc. - Miami, FL 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Claire Manufacturing 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Los Angeles 9775 Airport Blvd 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE LSB Industries - El Dorado 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE DH Pace Company Inc dba Overhead Door Company of Central Arizona 195 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. 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.