Employer · New York

Buffalo Flour Mill

Buffalo, NY · ~81 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Flour Mill runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo Flour Mill: 1.5 TCR = 46% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Flour Mill safety composite

Buffalo Flour Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−1.2

2016→2024

Buffalo Flour Mill injury rate improved

Buffalo Flour Mill's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.1 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Enid Flour Mill
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Enid Flour Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Flour Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Flour Mill averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Flour Mill TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Flour Mill falls in its industry

209 industry establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 11 industry employers in New York.

Buffalo Flour Mill (81 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Flour Mill
Buffalo Flour Mill (81 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Buffalo Flour Mill has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 4.4 0.0 4 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.1 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · NY · Buffalo

209 industry 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 Enid Flour Mill 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Grains and Cereal 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star of the West Milling Co - Willard, OH 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Craft Barnsville 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van de Wetering Greenhouses, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE HENRY CLAY BLVD (HCB1)-NY87 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREENVILLE 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welkin Mechanical 81 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 Trout Lake Farm East Mill 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Beech Grove 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Silent-Aire 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1821 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Times Microwave Systems South 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE 815 Industrial pkw. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lubbock Oilseeds 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Qlarant Inc Baltimore 81 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, 2020, 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.