Electrical work · New York

Black & McDonald - Syracuse

East Syracuse, NY · ~39 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black & McDonald - Syracuse runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Electrical work workplace, earning a grade B.

Black & McDonald - Syracuse: 1.7 TCR = 61% of Electrical work BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black & McDonald - Syracuse safety composite

Black & McDonald - Syracuse scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Black & McDonald - Syracuse: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2024

Black & McDonald - Syracuse's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · East Syracuse, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 61% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #83/252
  • PHOTO BOX SYSTEMS ELECTRIC…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BOX SYSTEMS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black & McDonald - Syracuse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black & McDonald - Syracuse averages 1.7 TCR (61% of the Electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

Black & McDonald - Syracuse TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3 · 2022=3 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Black & McDonald - Syracuse falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical work establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 252 Electrical work employers in New York.

Black & McDonald - Syracuse (39 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black & McDonald - Syracuse
Black & McDonald - Syracuse (39 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Black & McDonald - Syracuse has fewer employees than the Electrical work median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NY · East Syracuse

4,550 Electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 143 employers in East Syracuse, 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 BOX SYSTEMS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&D Maintenance LLC dba D&D Electric 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Falcon Electric inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&B SIGNAL COMPANY LLC. 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woody Hill Farms, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergen Farms LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora - Oakwood Dairy, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE MN8 Energy LLC - New York Office 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anaren Microwave, Inc 543 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies (Anaren) 526 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol-Myers Squibb Company - East Syracuse 447 FTE
NAT-TCR Oregon 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwire Douglas Plant 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MDR Holdings LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Snoho_IFS 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Churchview Supportive Living 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuPont Specialty Products USA, LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thoroughbred Contractors LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brilliant Graphics LLC dba Qualprint 39 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.