Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · New York

Buffalo

Amherst, NY · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo: 7.3 TCR = 334% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo safety composite

Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2018→2019

Buffalo injury rate improved

Buffalo's TCR fell 2.5 from 8.6 in 2018 to 6.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.6 · 2019=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Amherst, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 334% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #29/45
  • PHOTO Bonbright Distributo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bonbright Distributors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo averages 7.3 TCR (334% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo TCR series: 2018=8.6 · 2019=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Buffalo falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

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 45 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in New York.

Buffalo (45 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo
Buffalo (45 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Buffalo has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2019 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2018 8.6 8.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NY · Amherst

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 112 employers in Amherst, 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 Bonbright Distributors, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Eagle Distributing Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birmingham Budweiser 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR QAC,LLC d/b/a Eagle Brands Sales 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 827 - Barton Entertainment Co., LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schum-Acres Dairy OPS, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wayne County Fruit Sales, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8986 Locations 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Alberta Dr 082 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alberta Drive 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Niagara Falls 086 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Minnesota St Univ - Mankato 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 55 Industrial Drive 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Innovations LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0026 0228 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rcrs Tx San Angelo Dsa Class 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Las Vegas South 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Dallas TX-USA 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smith & Waters 45 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: 2019, 2018. 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.