Electric Power Distribution · New York

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36

Buffalo, NY · ~553 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric Power Distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36: 2.0 TCR = 171% of Electric Power Distribution BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 safety composite

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36: 1.2 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.2 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.0 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #60/110
  • PHOTO Lexington Substation…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~553 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lexington Substation Dept. & Relay (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 averages 2.0 TCR (171% of the Electric Power Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 1.2

Where Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 falls in its industry

2,958 Electric Power Distribution establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 110 Electric Power Distribution employers in New York.

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 (553 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Kensington-Ny36
Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 (553 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Buffalo Kensington-Ny36 has more employees than the Electric Power Distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.5 0.9 13 1 0
2023 1.3 0.7 6 1 0
2022 2.7 1.6 13 1 0
2021 2.6 1.6 13 0 0
2020 1.2 1.0 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · NY · Buffalo

2,958 Electric Power Distribution 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 Lexington Substation Dept. & Relay 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GVEC Gonzales 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Pines Work Center 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cadillac SC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CANARSIE SERVICE CENTER-NY43 553 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-SYRA 553 FTE
STATE-SIZE AVSP/SDS 553 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gotham Greens LLC 552 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 Bradley 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Era Office 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reynolds 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalent Greenville NC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Centers 553 FTE
NAT-SIZE Endeavor Air, Inc. - DTW Flight Operations and Inflight Base 553 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHC Corporation 553 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piepel Premium Fruit Company LLC 553 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. 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.