Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) · New York

Buffalo Newspress Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~92 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Newspress Inc. runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) workplace, earning a grade D.

Buffalo Newspress Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Newspress Inc. safety composite

Buffalo Newspress Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Newspress Inc.: 4.2 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.15× in 2024

Buffalo Newspress Inc.'s TCR rose 8.6 from 4.2 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #97/106
  • PHOTO 4over International …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4over International LLC - NJ State (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Newspress Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Newspress Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Newspress Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2018=2.4 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=12.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Newspress Inc. falls in its industry

2,001 Offset printing (except books, establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #97 safest of 106 Offset printing (except books, employers in New York.

Buffalo Newspress Inc. (92 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Newspress Inc.
Buffalo Newspress Inc. (92 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Buffalo Newspress Inc. has more employees than the Offset printing (except books, printing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 12.7 11.6 10 1 0
2023 4.2 2.8 2 1 0
2022 7.1 4.2 3 2 0
2021 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2020 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2016 4.2 3.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · NY · Buffalo

2,001 Offset printing (except books, printing grey goods) 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 4over International LLC - NJ State 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edina Manufacturing Network 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Printing Corporation 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHARLOTTE NC - GRANITE ST 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE UTY - New York - West Nyack,NY 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huen New York 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Mills Electric, Inc. 92 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 Herbert C Haynes Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bobcat of the Rockies - Golden 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JSA Company 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Theodore J. Katsiroubas Produce 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Casella Waste - Peabody Hauling 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carreon ag inc. 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanicsburg Warehouse 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janey Lou's Inc 92 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.