Transportation · New York

BUF - Ground Ops

Cheektowaga, NY · ~116 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BUF - Ground Ops runs at 461% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

BUF - Ground Ops: 20.8 TCR = 461% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BUF - Ground Ops safety composite

BUF - Ground Ops scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−10.3

2016→2020

BUF - Ground Ops injury rate improved

BUF - Ground Ops's TCR fell 10.3 from 20.5 in 2016 to 10.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 31.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=20.5 · 2017=31.9 · 2018=25.5 · 2019=15.6 · 2020=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 481111 · Cheektowaga, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.8 · 461% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #70/73
  • PHOTO BDL-GROUND OPS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 97 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BDL-GROUND OPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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BUF - Ground Ops in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BUF - Ground Ops averages 20.8 TCR (461% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

BUF - Ground Ops TCR series: 2016=20.5 · 2017=31.9 · 2018=25.5 · 2019=15.6 · 2020=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where BUF - Ground Ops falls in its industry

1,568 Transportation establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 73 Transportation employers in New York.

BUF - Ground Ops (116 employees, TCR 20.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate BUF - Ground Ops
BUF - Ground Ops (116 employees, TCR 20.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 6.1

BUF - Ground Ops has more employees than the Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2020 10.2 6.4 7 1 0
2019 15.6 11.9 16 1 0
2018 25.5 22.9 28 1 0
2017 31.9 20.9 25 1 0
2016 20.5 16.6 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

481111 · NY · Cheektowaga

1,568 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, 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 BDL-GROUND OPS 20.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOI-GROUND OPS 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ONT - Ground Ops 20.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDX - Ground Ops 20.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RED-Rochester, LLC 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOVERSVILLE SERVICE CENTER-NY09 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cauldwell Wingate Company, LLC 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Office 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Admirals Pointe 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 568765-Mil-West Allis Br 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Enfield Division of Buildings and Grounds 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oconee Health and Rehabilitation 20.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #6503 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : ATW - Appleton 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Catherine's Manor of Findlay 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crawford Industries - Crawfordsville Headquarters 116 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.