Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · New York

Buffalo

Cheektowaga, NY · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo runs at 690% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo: 15.2 TCR = 690% of Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo safety composite

Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−26.1

2016→2023

Buffalo injury rate improved

Buffalo's TCR fell 26.1 from 26.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 26.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=26.1 · 2017=19.4 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Cheektowaga, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 690% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/32
  • PHOTO 3495-11DA906
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3495-11DA906 (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 15.2 TCR (690% of the Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo TCR series: 2016=26.1 · 2017=19.4 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Buffalo falls in its industry

754 Medical Dental and Hospital Eq establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #31 safest of 32 Medical Dental and Hospital Eq employers in New York.

Buffalo (53 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo
Buffalo (53 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Buffalo has fewer employees than the Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment an median and a higher 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 19.4 13.6 10 0 0
2016 26.1 12.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423450 · NY · Cheektowaga

754 Medical Dental and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers 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 3495-11DA906 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 11DA638 MED-SURG COMMERCE CITY 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-11DA083 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-11DA201 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonton Food Inc. (Plainview Plant) 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broughton Farm 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery (Watertown) 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPSC 53 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 Big Lots Store #5276 Salisbury, NC 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Iowa 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Universal City 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG450 15.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Western Malting Vancouver 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Synthetic Fiber LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saputo Cheese_Carlstadt 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building 1 53 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: 2023, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.