Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers · New York

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo

Cheektowaga, NY · ~83 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo: 2.4 TCR = 110% of Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo safety composite

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−1.0

2016→2023

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo injury rate improved

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Cheektowaga, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 110% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #16/39
  • PHOTO 4818-48180055-6290 S…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4818-48180055-6290 SHELBY VIEW DR.-WC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Merchants North-Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Merchants North-Buffalo averages 2.4 TCR (110% of the Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Merchants North-Buffalo falls in its industry

735 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic B establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #16 safest of 39 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic B employers in New York.

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo (83 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Merchants North-Buffalo
Empire Merchants North-Buffalo (83 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Empire Merchants North-Buffalo has fewer employees than the Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Me 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
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.9 5.8 6 0 0
2016 2.4 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · NY · Cheektowaga

735 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, 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 4818-48180055-6290 SHELBY VIEW DR.-WC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 738 YOUNG S MARKET-TUSTIN 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vintage Wine Distributor Columbus 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mutual Distributing Company -New Bern 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Willow Bend Farm 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Plattsburgh 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 59th Street Generating Station 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE QUEENS SERVICE CENTER-NY71 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Es-Ascension Macomb- 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0628 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Douglas 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Springfield (Roosevelt Ave) 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monterrey Iron and Metal, LTD 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duval Cty #8 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mittera - Indiana 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bangor Me (Hampden) 83 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.