Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire · New York

Buffalo Wire Works

Buffalo, NY · ~174 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Wire Works runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Wire Works: 7.6 TCR = 231% of Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Wire Works safety composite

Buffalo Wire Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2016→2024

Buffalo Wire Works injury rate improved

Buffalo Wire Works's TCR fell 2.3 from 10.7 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.7 · 2017=8.0 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 231% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO CIB Wire & Iron Work…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 80 inj
  • SIZE ~174 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CIB Wire & Iron Works, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Wire Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Wire Works averages 7.6 TCR (231% of the Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Wire Works TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2017=8 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Wire Works falls in its industry

270 Cloth, woven wire, made from p establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Cloth, woven wire, made from p employers in New York.

Buffalo Wire Works (174 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Wire Works
Buffalo Wire Works (174 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Buffalo Wire Works has more employees than the Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 8.4 7.3 15 1 0
2023 3.8 3.2 6 1 0
2022 6.5 5.0 13 0 0
2021 9.5 4.8 8 8 0
2020 6.6 4.2 11 0 0
2017 8.0 4.0 11 1 0
2016 10.7 8.0 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · NY · Buffalo

270 Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire 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 CIB Wire & Iron Works, LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northridge Metal Fabrication LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salem 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Branch 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE D.A. Collins Construction Co., Inc. 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Italian Bakery 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE GREAT NECK SAW MFGRS INC 174 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECT Power - Utica 174 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 Bellevue 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PathPoint Lancaster 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 10138 Petaluma 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gateway Springs 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10015 Brighton 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10509 Charlestown 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnstown 174 FTE
NAT-SIZE NV Branch 174 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, 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.