Vertical Transportation Company · New York

D29 Buffalo

Williamsville, NY · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D29 Buffalo runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vertical Transportation Company workplace, earning a grade A.

D29 Buffalo: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Vertical Transportation Company BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D29 Buffalo safety composite

D29 Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−2.0

2021→2024

D29 Buffalo injury rate improved

D29 Buffalo's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Williamsville, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/67
  • PHOTO Advanced Industrial …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Industrial Services LLC - Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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D29 Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D29 Buffalo averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Vertical Transportation Company BLS benchmark).

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

D29 Buffalo TCR series: 2021=2 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where D29 Buffalo falls in its industry

1,138 Vertical Transportation Compan establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 67 Vertical Transportation Compan employers in New York.

D29 Buffalo (44 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D29 Buffalo
D29 Buffalo (44 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

D29 Buffalo has fewer employees than the Vertical Transportation Company median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · NY · Williamsville

1,138 Vertical Transportation Company employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 98 employers in Williamsville, 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 Advanced Industrial Services LLC - Columbus 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 542 RTE 9W GLENMONT, NY 12077 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WMC Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR D61 Atlanta 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fillmore Greenhouses 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARQUART BROS, LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodcrest Dairy LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Lockport 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR People Inc. 3,823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram Micro, Inc. - Williamsville 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram Micro Corporate East 1,507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Transit Road 090 515 FTE
NAT-TCR D61 Atlanta 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 55594 Yamhill 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avibank Manufacturing, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Link Logistics 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newville Pa 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE RK Transport Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKay's Market Lincoln City #28 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ada Ok 44 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, 2021. 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.