General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers · New York

Buffalo Branch

Buffalo, NY · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Branch runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo Branch: 1.0 TCR = 47% of General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Branch safety composite

Buffalo Branch scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Buffalo Branch held a steady TCR band

Buffalo Branch's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/22
  • PHOTO 120-NBH-ATLANTA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 120-NBH-ATLANTA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Branch averages 1.0 TCR (47% of the General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Branch TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Buffalo Branch falls in its industry

322 General merchandise, durable g establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 22 General merchandise, durable g employers in New York.

Buffalo Branch (21 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Branch
Buffalo Branch (21 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Buffalo Branch has fewer employees than the General merchandise, durable goods, merc median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · NY · Buffalo

322 General merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers 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 120-NBH-ATLANTA 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leamar Industries Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stihl Southwest, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipeline Cleveland 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chambers Valley Farms, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mulligan Family Farm LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dziedzic Farms LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Hollow Dairy LLC 21 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 Chestnut Service Center 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic Construction Company LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PHL - Philadelphia 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waters Corporation Milford, MA and Field 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transwaste Albany 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viking, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE HB Rentals, L.C. Cannonsburg, PA 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tradebe Environmental Services - Newington Facility 21 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.