Gypsum Product Manufacturing · New York

Buchanan Plant

Buchanan, NY · ~109 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buchanan Plant runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gypsum Product Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Buchanan Plant: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Gypsum Product Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buchanan Plant safety composite

Buchanan Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Buchanan Plant: 0.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Buchanan Plant's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.8 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Buchanan, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Architectural Produc…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Architectural Products by Outwater, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Buchanan Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buchanan Plant averages 4.8 TCR (144% of the Gypsum Product Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buchanan Plant TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Buchanan Plant falls in its industry

123 Gypsum Product Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Buchanan Plant (109 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buchanan Plant
Buchanan Plant (109 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Buchanan Plant has more employees than the Gypsum Product Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021 6.3 4.2 6 3 0
2020 4.1 2.4 5 2 0
2019 7.1 5.5 9 0 0
2018 5.5 3.9 7 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · NY · Buchanan

123 Gypsum Product Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 6 employers in Buchanan, 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 Architectural Products by Outwater, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Classic Panel of Alabama 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Bond Building Products, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Classic Panel of Tennessee 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Farm 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mile Development Corp 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perfetto Contracting Co. Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE NY Plant 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Point Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR JP McHale Hudson Valley 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ Indian Point Nuclear Plant 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC 122 FTE
NAT-TCR NICKLES-MASSILLON 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 125 Meijer Tipp City Oh 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #030 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanton Save-A-Lot 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store #058 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sinclair Systems Fresno 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Health & Social Services (7) 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 109 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.