Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing · New York

BASF Corporation - Amherst

Amherst, NY · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BASF Corporation - Amherst runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

BASF Corporation - Amherst: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BASF Corporation - Amherst safety composite

BASF Corporation - Amherst scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

BASF Corporation - Amherst: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2019

BASF Corporation - Amherst's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Amherst, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #1/46
  • PHOTO AP Fabrications, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AP Fabrications, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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BASF Corporation - Amherst in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BASF Corporation - Amherst averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

BASF Corporation - Amherst TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.3

Where BASF Corporation - Amherst falls in its industry

1,491 Expansion joints, metal, manuf establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 46 Expansion joints, metal, manuf employers in New York.

BASF Corporation - Amherst (138 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 BASF Corporation - Amherst
BASF Corporation - Amherst (138 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

BASF Corporation - Amherst has more employees than the Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · NY · Amherst

1,491 Expansion joints, metal, manufacturing 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 AP Fabrications, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR StruXure Outdoor Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veritas Steel- Palatka 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&E Resources 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pavarini McGovern LLC 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hewitt Young Electric, LLC. 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE SRI Fire Sprinkler LLC 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Starline USA 138 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 Wilson McShane, Kansas 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AEP Transmission Headquarters 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus Christi Home Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Copperhead Pipeline and Construction Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0019 1123 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0019 1516 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10 - Fort Worth Plant 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tremont MA SNF LLC 138 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: 2019, 2018. 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.