Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · New York

Buffalo Ny

Cheektowage, NY · ~193 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Ny runs at 617% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Ny: 13.6 TCR = 617% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Ny safety composite

Buffalo Ny scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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 13.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 Ny: 13.9 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

Buffalo Ny's TCR rose 2.0 from 13.9 in 2016 to 15.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Cheektowage, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 617% of ind

  • DART 13.4 DART
  • RANK #40/47
  • PHOTO San Diego - RCCB
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 253 inj
  • SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Diego - RCCB (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Ny in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Ny averages 13.6 TCR (617% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Ny TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=16.2 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=20.6 · 2024=15.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Buffalo Ny falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 47 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in New York.

Buffalo Ny (193 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Ny
Buffalo Ny (193 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Buffalo Ny has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 15.8 13.4 32 1 0
2023 20.6 19.2 45 0 0
2022 10.1 9.2 21 0 0
2021 11.9 9.9 24 0 0
2020 10.3 8.7 20 0 0
2019 16.2 15.2 33 0 0
2018 12.1 9.8 26 0 0
2017 11.3 8.3 23 0 0
2016 13.9 12.4 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NY · Cheektowage

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 San Diego - RCCB 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virginia Beach Location 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR IA - Clear Lake - 909 N. 40th St - The American Bottling Company 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIKEVILLE KY 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neptune Service Ctr 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cord Contracting Co., Inc 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNC - West Seneca 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Fountainhead Group,Inc. 193 FTE
NAT-TCR Fire Station 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tec 33 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Farms 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kewanee Care Home 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ORD 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE 285 - Terre Haute IN 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regal Rexnord 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roxboro Fossil and CT Plants 193 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.