Employer · New York

Cope Bestway Express Inc

Buffalo, NY · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cope Bestway Express Inc runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Cope Bestway Express Inc: 3.4 TCR = 76% of industry BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cope Bestway Express Inc safety composite

Cope Bestway Express Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.5

2017→2022

Cope Bestway Express Inc injury rate improved

Cope Bestway Express Inc's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=10.2 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/69
  • PHOTO McKee Foods Transpor…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McKee Foods Transportation - VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cope Bestway Express Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cope Bestway Express Inc averages 3.4 TCR (76% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Cope Bestway Express Inc TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=10.2 · 2022=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Cope Bestway Express Inc falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 69 industry employers in New York.

Cope Bestway Express Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cope Bestway Express Inc
Cope Bestway Express Inc (24 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cope Bestway Express Inc has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.2 3.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · NY · Buffalo

3,252 industry 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 McKee Foods Transportation - VA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logistics Services Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arnoff Moving & Storage of Albany, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6889 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bittner Singer Orchards 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Organic Farm 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawnel Farms 2 LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dairy 24 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 Madison Community Hospital d/b/a/ Madison Regional Health System 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MercyOne Heart Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington - American Bl 3324 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbrite Dye 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Butch Cameron Trucking Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lrc Trucking Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Transport Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rhodes 145 - Jackson East Main 24 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: 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.