Phenolic resins manufacturing · New York

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant

Niagara Falls, NY · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Phenolic resins manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant: 11.0 TCR = 334% of Phenolic resins manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant safety composite

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−15.0

2019→2020

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant injury rate improved

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant's TCR fell 15.0 from 18.5 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=18.5 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325211 · Niagara Falls, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 334% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Milwaukee Composites…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milwaukee Composites, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant averages 11.0 TCR (334% of the Phenolic resins manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant TCR series: 2019=18.5 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant falls in its industry

644 Phenolic resins manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #11 safest of 12 Phenolic resins manufacturing employers in New York.

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant (54 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 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 Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant
Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant (54 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Durez Corporation Niagara Falls Plant has fewer employees than the Phenolic resins manufacturing median and a higher 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
2020 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2019 18.5 13.4 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325211 · NY · Niagara Falls

644 Phenolic resins manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 107 employers in Niagara Falls, 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 Milwaukee Composites, Inc. 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astro Plastics - Georgia 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hahl Inc 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durez Corporation Kenton 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Dairy 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kast Farms Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roseton Generating LLC 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE W. 30th Street Substation 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Venture Forthe 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sevenson overall injury report 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Company 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1909 421 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Lifestyle Senior Living Center 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR VITALIGENT LLC Birdcage Citrus Heights 428 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Creek Industries LLC 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Market - Store 770 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Global Views Management LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Travis Agricultural Construction 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flinthills Industries 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 54 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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