Support Activities for Air Transportation · New York

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo safety composite

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−7.8

2017→2020

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo injury rate improved

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo's TCR fell 7.8 from 9.2 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.2 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #69/111
  • PHOTO Atlantic Aviation - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlantic Aviation - DTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=4 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo falls in its industry

1,555 Support Activities for Air Tra establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 111 Support Activities for Air Tra employers in New York.

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo (128 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo
DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo (128 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

DGS Aviation Services : BUF - Buffalo has more employees than the Support Activities for Air Transportatio median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 1.4 0.7 1 1 0
2019 1.5 0.7 2 0 0
2018 4.0 3.2 5 0 0
2017 9.2 7.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · NY · Buffalo

1,555 Support Activities for Air Transportation 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 Atlantic Aviation - DTS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR INDPW9669 IND - RAMP PAX 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic Aviation - SJC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4765-DFWPW9624 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Technico Main Office 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston Valley Terra Cotta 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE CVD Equipment Corporation 128 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 General Mills (Kansas City) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CW Egg Products 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Micro 140 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Apeks LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : CAE - Columbia 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : PNS - Pensacola 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Building Products CBPQ 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electrical Construction 128 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.