Centrifugal pumps manufacturing · New York

Buffalo Pumps

North Tonawanda, NY · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Pumps runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Centrifugal pumps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Pumps: 6.9 TCR = 208% of Centrifugal pumps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Pumps safety composite

Buffalo Pumps scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Pumps: 4.0 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Buffalo Pumps's TCR rose 5.7 from 4.0 in 2022 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333911 · North Tonawanda, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 208% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO TTS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Pumps in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Pumps averages 6.9 TCR (208% of the Centrifugal pumps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Pumps TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Pumps falls in its industry

194 Centrifugal pumps manufacturin establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Centrifugal pumps manufacturin employers in New York.

Buffalo Pumps (76 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Pumps
Buffalo Pumps (76 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Buffalo Pumps has more employees than the Centrifugal pumps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 9.8 6.1 8 0 0
2023 6.9 2.7 5 0 0
2022 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333911 · NY · North Tonawanda

194 Centrifugal pumps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 60 employers in North Tonawanda, 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 TTS 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR W.S Darley 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMFLO Lubbock 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pentair Flow Technologies 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brightfarms Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE POTSDAM SERVICE CENTER-NY99 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bennett Contracting Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3841_7298 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4597 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4597 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northgate Health Care Facility 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health DeGraff Memorial Hospital 227 FTE
NAT-TCR Hill & Valley, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Msnat - Natchez 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ctbia - Bradley Air Facility 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Agri Supply of Garner 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fosston High School 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gas Turbine Efficiency LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain View Memory Care LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orgra - Grants Pass 76 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. 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.