Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross · New York

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division

Buffalo, NY · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division runs at 490% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division: 16.2 TCR = 490% of Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division safety composite

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−11.0

2022→2023

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division injury rate improved

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division's TCR fell 11.0 from 21.7 in 2022 to 10.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=21.7 · 2023=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331314 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.2 · 490% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Scepter, Inc - Green…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scepter, Inc - Greeneville Operations (1.8 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division averages 16.2 TCR (490% of the Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division TCR series: 2022=21.7 · 2023=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division falls in its industry

103 Aluminum alloys made from scra establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Aluminum alloys made from scra employers in New York.

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division (21 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division
Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division (21 employees, TCR 16.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Buffalo Engine Components Aluminum Sweat Division has fewer employees than the Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 21.7 7.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331314 · NY · Buffalo

103 Aluminum alloys made from scrap or dross 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 Scepter, Inc - Greeneville Operations 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scepter, Inc. - Seneca Falls Operations 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fritz Products 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperial Aluminum - Scottsboro LLC 12.3 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 Chefs' Toys-Anaheim DC2 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Parkersburg 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00211 16.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Worth CCA 16.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCook 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pipestone 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foutch Brothers, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Reconditioning, Inc. 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.