Elevator installation · New York

Bison Elevator Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bison Elevator Buffalo runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Elevator installation workplace, earning a grade B.

Bison Elevator Buffalo: 1.9 TCR = 68% of Elevator installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bison Elevator Buffalo safety composite

Bison Elevator Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Bison Elevator Buffalo held a steady TCR band

Bison Elevator Buffalo's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.8 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #37/67
  • PHOTO Otis Elevator Compan…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Otis Elevator Company-Fargo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bison Elevator Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bison Elevator Buffalo averages 1.9 TCR (68% of the Elevator installation BLS benchmark).

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

Bison Elevator Buffalo TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Bison Elevator Buffalo falls in its industry

1,138 Elevator installation establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 67 Elevator installation employers in New York.

Bison Elevator Buffalo (40 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bison Elevator Buffalo
Bison Elevator Buffalo (40 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Bison Elevator Buffalo has fewer employees than the Elevator installation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · NY · Buffalo

1,138 Elevator installation 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 Otis Elevator Company-Fargo 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Portland,OR 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Syracuse 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridge City Mechanical, Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bilow Farms, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constantine Construction and Farm, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burrows Bros. Inc. 40 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 Greencastle 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blanchard Valley Hospital 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Primus Aerospace 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lodge Casino 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caldwell Recyclers 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Stamping Corporation 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harper Construction 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.L. Roenigk, Inc. - Pittsburgh 40 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. 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.