Manufacturing · New York

Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~824 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo: 1.2 TCR = 48% of Manufacturing BLS 2.6 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo safety composite

Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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: 0.1 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Buffalo's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.1 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561910 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO Universal Synergetic…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~824 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Synergetics, Inc. (Stow) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo averages 1.2 TCR (48% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Buffalo falls in its industry

228 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 14 Manufacturing employers in New York.

Buffalo (824 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo
Buffalo (824 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Buffalo has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 3.3 1.1 6 0 0
2023 4.9 0.5 9 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561910 · NY · Buffalo

228 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Universal Synergetics, Inc. (Stow) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packaging UnLimited Legionaire Lincolnton 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windfall Industries 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sharp Conshohocken 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rivers Casino 823 FTE
STATE-SIZE SYRACUSE (NY79) 821 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Memorial Hospital 827 FTE
STATE-SIZE Masonic Care Community 821 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 Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations - West Hackberry 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial Contracting Corporation 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh NC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Solar Turbines Broken Arrow Facility 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE HSG-Health Services 824 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCLC, Inc. 824 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carbondale 824 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Blanc Community Schools 824 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, 2019, 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.