Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · New York

Buffalo Milk-Bone

Name: Buffalo Milk-Bone Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buffalo, NY · ~231 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Buffalo Milk-Bone runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo Milk-Bone: 1.5 TCR = 39% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Milk-Bone safety composite

Buffalo Milk-Bone scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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 Milk-Bone: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2021

Buffalo Milk-Bone's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 39% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #2/10
PHOTO Cargill/Pro Pet LLC
BOOK 4y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill/Pro Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.5
Cargill/Pro Pe

1.5
South Mill

1.5
Heartland Petf

1.5
Diamond Pet Fo

1.5

What this shows Buffalo Milk-Bone averages 1.5 TCR (39% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Buffalo Milk-Bone TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=1.7 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Buffalo Milk-Bone falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in New York.

Buffalo Milk-Bone (231 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Buffalo Milk-Bone has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2021	1.6	0.8	4
2018	1.7	0.9	4
2017	2.7	1.8	6
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NY · Buffalo

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cargill/Pro Pet LLC	SAINT MARYS, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	South Mill	FORT RECOVERY, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC	RICHMOND, IN	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Diamond Pet Foods	META, MO	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Germantown Campus	GERMANTOWN	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	REINAUER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY	STATEN ISLAND	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SweetWorks Confections LLC	BUFFALO	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	3202 Queens Blvd	LONG ISLAND CITY	231 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buffalo General Hospital	Buffalo	3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital of Buffalo	Buffalo	2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WNY Independent Living, Inc.	Buffalo	1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital	Buffalo	1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tpc Wire and Cable Corp	Macedonia, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Valley Medical and Wellness	Burnsville, MN	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	RSW Ft Myers - 7500	Fort Myers, FL	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY	Leitchfield, KY	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Washington DC	Lanham, MD	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	UT Regional One Physicians Inc	Memphis, TN	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Timberlake Orlando Service Center	Orlando, FL	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Total Highway Maintenance, LLC - Corporate	Cedar Hill, TX	231 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: 2021, 2018, 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.