Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice) · New York

General Mills (Buffalo Flour)

Buffalo, NY · ~94 workers · 5 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

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice) workplace, earning a grade C.

General Mills (Buffalo Flour): 3.0 TCR = 92% of Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) safety composite

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Rising injury rate

General Mills (Buffalo Flour): 2.4 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2020

General Mills (Buffalo Flour)'s TCR rose 2.2 from 2.4 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Ardent Mills Colton
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ardent Mills Colton (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Mills (Buffalo Flour) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Mills (Buffalo Flour) averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice) BLS benchmark).

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

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where General Mills (Buffalo Flour) falls in its industry

209 Flour mills, cereals grains (e establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Flour mills, cereals grains (e employers in New York.

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) (94 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate General Mills (Buffalo Flour)
General Mills (Buffalo Flour) (94 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

General Mills (Buffalo Flour) has more employees than the Flour mills, cereals grains (except brea median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.6 0.9 4 1 0
2019 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 4.0 2.4 4 1 0
2016 2.4 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · NY · Buffalo

209 Flour mills, cereals grains (except breakfast cereals, rice) 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 Ardent Mills Colton 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Harvey 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Flour Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Azteca Milling 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adirondack Farms LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE E. 16th St 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Fuel Gas Distribution Tonawanda Servicenter 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oldcastle Building Envelope 94 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 Jefferson Elementary 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Roofing Dodge City 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Matsu Fire Department 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 950 Market 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE High Cliff Estates-MHPI Properties 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE John J. Hainkel Home 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vanlaan 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE TI Automotive - New Haven 94 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, 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.