Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers · New York

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo)

Buffalo, NY · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) runs at 277% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo): 6.1 TCR = 277% of Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) safety composite

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2022→2024

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) injury rate improved

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo)'s TCR fell 8.2 from 13.2 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423930 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 277% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #25/39
  • PHOTO Royal Paper Stock Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royal Paper Stock Company Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) averages 6.1 TCR (277% of the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) TCR series: 2022=13.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) falls in its industry

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 39 Bottles, waste, merchant whole employers in New York.

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) (19 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 020406080100 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo)
Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) (19 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Cascades Recovery+, a divisiion of Cascades Holding Inc. (Buffalo) has fewer employees than the Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.2 4.4 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423930 · NY · Buffalo

1,126 Bottles, waste, merchant wholesalers 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Royal Paper Stock Company Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocky Mountain Recycling Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & C Scrap Iron & Metal Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PnP San Antonio - Roosevelt U-Pull-It 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Chatham 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRANKLINVILLE CREW LOCATION-NY39 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOW SERVICE CENTER-NY41 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies NYC - Leroy Office 19 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 Metalworking Solutions, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coastal Beverage Company, Inc. - Farmville 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Integrated Metal Solutions, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor Woods Health and Rehab 6.1 TCR

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