General medical and surgical hospitals · New York

Buffalo General Hospital

Buffalo, NY · ~3,556 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo General Hospital runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Buffalo General Hospital: 4.0 TCR = 54% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo General Hospital safety composite

Buffalo General Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 General Hospital: 3.5 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

Buffalo General Hospital's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.5 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.0 · 54% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #139/296
  • PHOTO Le Sueur
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 231 inj
  • SIZE ~3,556 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Le Sueur (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo General Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo General Hospital averages 4.0 TCR (54% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo General Hospital TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Buffalo General Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #139 safest of 296 General medical and surgical h employers in New York.

Buffalo General Hospital (3,556 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo General Hospital
Buffalo General Hospital (3,556 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Buffalo General Hospital has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 4.6 1.6 147 0 0
2023 3.5 1.4 84 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · NY · Buffalo

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Le Sueur 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairmont Medical Center 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berkeley Medical Center 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gothenburg Health 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Community Health Aide Services 3,557 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYU Langone Health System Inc 3,550 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Peter's Hospital-Albany-SPHP-NY 3,549 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moog, Inc. - East Aurora 3,583 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
CITY-NEAR HealthNow NY Inc. 1,643 FTE
NAT-TCR Relco LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Indianapolis PLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayfair Village Retirement 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Clinics-Univ Villge RX FSOC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Overlook Medical Center 3,560 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applied Materials 3,562 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Hospital 3,564 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA030 Atlanta - GP Center 3,567 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. 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.