Galvanizing metals and metal products for the trade · New York

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing

Buffalo, NY · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Galvanizing metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Galvanizing metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing safety composite

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing injury rate improved

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.5 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #10/19
  • PHOTO AZZ Galvanizing - Ci…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AZZ Galvanizing - Cincinnati (0.0 TCR gap)

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Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Galvanizing metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing TCR series: 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing falls in its industry

646 Galvanizing metals and metal p establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 19 Galvanizing metals and metal p employers in New York.

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing (38 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing
Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing (38 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing has fewer employees than the Galvanizing metals and metal products fo median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · NY · Buffalo

646 Galvanizing metals and metal products for the trade 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 AZZ Galvanizing - Cincinnati 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 5- Lake Air 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Division 18 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ion bond - Portsmouth 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spruce Haven Farm, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora-Oakwood Dairy, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eldred Brothers / Main Farm 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanehan Family Dairy, LLC 38 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 Lexlawn 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All Occasions Event Rental 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kysom - Somerset 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rainbow City 10275 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DME - O AND P - Hibbing 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Specialty Concrete, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynamic Design and Manufacturing, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grafton Transit 38 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, 2023. 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.