Gypsum building products manufacturing · New York

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC

Buchanan, NY · ~122 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gypsum building products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC: 7.0 TCR = 211% of Gypsum building products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC safety composite

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC: 4.2 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC's TCR rose 3.5 from 4.2 in 2022 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Buchanan, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK P5
  • PHOTO Southern Wall Produc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Wall Products LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC averages 7.0 TCR (211% of the Gypsum building products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC falls in its industry

123 Gypsum building products manuf establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC (122 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC
CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC (122 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

CertainTeed Gypsum Buchanan, LLC has more employees than the Gypsum building products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 7.7 6.3 3 8 0
2023 8.9 7.5 9 3 0
2022 4.2 4.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · NY · Buchanan

123 Gypsum building products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 6 employers in Buchanan, 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 Southern Wall Products LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proform Finishing Products 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX026 Sweetwater Gypsum EAST 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Garden City NY 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eltech Industries, Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lactalis Heritage Dairy 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4371 North Tonawanda Container 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indian Point Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR JP McHale Hudson Valley 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ Indian Point Nuclear Plant 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buchanan Plant 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Horizon - Raleigh 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parksite 108 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MKR Fabrication LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hills- York, PA 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flexicore Of Texas 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogue Community Health - Admin 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Willamette Valley Company - OWL (Pre-Tec, Performance Products, and Administrative Offices) 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom-Pak Group C 122 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.