Airport passenger screening security services · New York

BUF

Buffalo, NY · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BUF runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Airport passenger screening security services workplace, earning a grade D.

BUF: 8.1 TCR = 181% of Airport passenger screening security services BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BUF safety composite

BUF scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2017→2024

BUF injury rate improved

BUF's TCR fell 5.0 from 10.2 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.2 · 2018=8.9 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 181% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO MDW
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MDW (0.0 TCR gap)

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BUF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BUF averages 8.1 TCR (181% of the Airport passenger screening security services BLS benchmark).

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

BUF TCR series: 2017=10.2 · 2018=8.9 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where BUF falls in its industry

992 Airport passenger screening se establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 Airport passenger screening se employers in New York.

BUF (81 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate BUF
BUF (81 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

BUF has more employees than the Airport passenger screening security ser median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 5.2 5.2 0 1 0
2018 8.9 5.4 10 0 0
2017 10.2 7.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · NY · Buffalo

992 Airport passenger screening security services 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 MDW 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uniflight 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2073-EJ-20730192-MX 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Gateway Airport 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van de Wetering Greenhouses, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE HENRY CLAY BLVD (HCB1)-NY87 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENVILLE 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welkin Mechanical 81 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 2016 Coborn's Long Prairie 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TruNorth Landscaping LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0CR98 Foretravel INC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm & Fleet of Holland 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley View Health & Rehabilitation 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartan Consulting Group, LLC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 76BT 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marc Glassman Inc 22TH 81 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, 2018, 2017. 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.