Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations · New York

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority

Name: Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buffalo, NY · ~39 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.8
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations workplace, earning a grade C.

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority safety composite

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority: 3.5 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority's TCR rose 6.1 from 3.5 in 2021 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488490 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #13/18
PHOTO TRS MEBANE
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRS MEBANE (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Clair Coun

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Dakota City PB

4.7

What this shows Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations BLS benchmark).

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority TCR series: 2021=3.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority falls in its industry

370 Bridge, tunnel, and highway op establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 #13 safest of 18 Bridge, tunnel, and highway op employers in New York.

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (39 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority has fewer employees than the Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024	9.7	0.0	3
2023	5.9	5.9	2
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	3.5	3.5	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488490 · NY · Buffalo

370 Bridge, tunnel, and highway operations 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	TRS MEBANE	MEBANE, NC	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LINC 0002 (FLINT - M)	FLINT, MI	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	St. Clair County Road Commission - Central Service Center	ST. CLAIR, MI	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dakota City PBX	DAKOTA CITY, NE	4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Woody Hill Farms, Inc.	SALEM	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bergen Farms LLC	ODESSA	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aurora - Oakwood Dairy, LLC	AUBURN	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MN8 Energy LLC - New York Office	NEW YORK	39 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buffalo General Hospital	Buffalo	3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital of Buffalo	Buffalo	2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WNY Independent Living, Inc.	Buffalo	1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital	Buffalo	1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dakota Hardwoods Dallas #157	Dallas, TX	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	United Industrial Textile Products	W Springfield, MA	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	NW Works Inc.	Winchester, VA	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heritage Dedicated Services, Inc.	Waco, TX	4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Earle M. Jorgensen	Tulsa, OK	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gatlin Feed	Bogue Chitto, MS	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacific Plumbing Supply - Auburn	Auburn, WA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North Central Electric co-op	Attica, OH	39 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, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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