Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), clay, manufacturing · New York

Boston Valley Terra Cotta

Name: Boston Valley Terra Cotta Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Orchard Park, NY · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Boston Valley Terra Cotta runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), clay, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Boston Valley Terra Cotta: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), clay, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boston Valley Terra Cotta safety composite

Boston Valley Terra Cotta scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Boston Valley Terra Cotta: 2.5 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Boston Valley Terra Cotta's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.5 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Orchard Park, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #4/12
PHOTO Red River Brick Athens
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red River Brick Athens (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.7
Red River Bric

2.7
Dal-Tile

2.7
General Shale

2.7
Meridian Brick

2.7

What this shows Boston Valley Terra Cotta averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), clay, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Boston Valley Terra Cotta TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Boston Valley Terra Cotta falls in its industry

307 Refractories (e.g., block, bri establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Refractories (e.g., block, bri employers in New York.

Boston Valley Terra Cotta (128 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Boston Valley Terra Cotta has more employees than the Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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	1.9	3	0	0
2016	2.5	1.2	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · NY · Orchard Park

307 Refractories (e.g., block, brick, mortar, tile), clay, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 72 employers in Orchard Park, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Red River Brick Athens	ATHENS, TX	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dal-Tile	DICKSON, TN	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Shale Mooresville	MOORESVILLE, IN	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Meridian Brick LLC-Union City	UNION CITY, OK	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Technico Main Office	LONG ISLAND CITY	128 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.	WILLIAMSVILLE	128 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CVD Equipment Corporation	CENTRAL ISLIP	128 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gorbel, Inc, 600	FISHERS	128 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mission Systems Orchard Park	Orchard Park	455 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MSD ORCHARD PARK	Orchard Park	448 FTE
CITY-NEAR	McGard llc	Orchard Park	437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	10 Cobham	Orchard Park	420 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pentastar Aviation, LLC	Waterford, MI	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Delta Furniture Manufacturing	Pontotoc, MS	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Redwood County Law Enforcement Center	Redwood Falls, MN	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Preco, LLC	Somerset, WI	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Robert C Geer Memorial Hospital Inc	Canaan, CT	128 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MBM Contracting Inc.	Pittsburgh, PA	128 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Facilities Fleet Management	Woodbridge, VA	128 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wepfer Marine, Inc.	Memphis, TN	128 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.