Employer · New York

Buffalo, NY HVAC

Amherst, NY · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo, NY HVAC runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo, NY HVAC: 1.4 TCR = 50% of industry BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo, NY HVAC safety composite

Buffalo, NY HVAC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Buffalo, NY HVAC held a steady TCR band

Buffalo, NY HVAC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=3.0 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Amherst, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #56/297
  • PHOTO Three Rivers Sheet M…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Three Rivers Sheet Metal, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo, NY HVAC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo, NY HVAC averages 1.4 TCR (50% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo, NY HVAC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Buffalo, NY HVAC falls in its industry

5,793 industry establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 297 industry employers in New York.

Buffalo, NY HVAC (32 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo, NY HVAC
Buffalo, NY HVAC (32 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Buffalo, NY HVAC has fewer employees than the industry 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · NY · Amherst

5,793 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 112 employers in Amherst, 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 Three Rivers Sheet Metal, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Massachusetts Office 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livingston Fire Protection 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TP Mechanical 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schofield Farms LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Bliss 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1482 West Genesee Road, Baldwinsville NY 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 166 Gary Dr., Brockport, NY 14420 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Davis-Ulmer Sprinkler Company Inc 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Alberta Dr 082 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alberta Drive 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Niagara Falls 086 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Munoz Rivera Division de Autos 876 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Frontier Leasing Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Teleflex Vascular Solutions 6464 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Edina ISD #273 South View Middle School 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saginaw/Traverse, MI HVAC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impact Fulfillment Services - NLX2 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maverick Grand Prairie, TX 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriCare Plus - Bedford 32 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.