Motors, gear, manufacturing · New York

General Motors Tonawanda Engine

Buffalo, NY · ~1,052 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Motors Tonawanda Engine runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motors, gear, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

General Motors Tonawanda Engine: 8.3 TCR = 251% of Motors, gear, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Motors Tonawanda Engine safety composite

General Motors Tonawanda Engine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Rising injury rate

General Motors Tonawanda Engine: 6.3 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

General Motors Tonawanda Engine's TCR rose 1.3 from 6.3 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 251% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO St. Louis Gear
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 211 inj
  • SIZE ~1,052 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Louis Gear (0.4 TCR gap)

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General Motors Tonawanda Engine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Motors Tonawanda Engine averages 8.3 TCR (251% of the Motors, gear, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Motors Tonawanda Engine TCR series: 2021=6.3 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=11.7 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where General Motors Tonawanda Engine falls in its industry

106 Motors, gear, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 11 Motors, gear, manufacturing employers in New York.

General Motors Tonawanda Engine (1,052 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate General Motors Tonawanda Engine
General Motors Tonawanda Engine (1,052 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

General Motors Tonawanda Engine has more employees than the Motors, gear, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 7.6 3.0 38 31 0
2023 11.7 6.0 53 51 0
2022 7.5 6.0 56 12 0
2021 6.3 4.9 64 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · NY · Buffalo

106 Motors, gear, manufacturing 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 St. Louis Gear 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gear Motions - Nixon Gear Division 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEAM Industries, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAM Enterprises 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE St. Vincent's Hospital - Westchester 1,050 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. 1,056 FTE
STATE-SIZE SME NY 1,047 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPM Waterford 1,046 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 Industrial Waste Utilization, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mutual Aid Ambulance Service, Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dupont Hospital 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sargent Drilling Co 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - BOS7 1,052 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holloman Corporation 1,052 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2005 - Downey 1,052 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moraine Valley Community College #524 1,052 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.