Thrift shops, used merchandise · New York

Goodwill Industries of WNY

Buffalo, NY · ~259 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goodwill Industries of WNY runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Thrift shops, used merchandise workplace, earning a grade F.

Goodwill Industries of WNY: 7.3 TCR = 215% of Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goodwill Industries of WNY safety composite

Goodwill Industries of WNY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Goodwill Industries of WNY: 7.4 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2022

Goodwill Industries of WNY's TCR rose 3.4 from 7.4 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 215% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #27/33
  • PHOTO Arvada Store
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~259 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arvada Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goodwill Industries of WNY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goodwill Industries of WNY averages 7.3 TCR (215% of the Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Goodwill Industries of WNY TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.3 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=10.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Goodwill Industries of WNY falls in its industry

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 33 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers in New York.

Goodwill Industries of WNY (259 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Goodwill Industries of WNY
Goodwill Industries of WNY (259 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Goodwill Industries of WNY has more employees than the Thrift shops, used merchandise median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2022 10.8 10.0 14 0 0
2021 10.7 10.1 15 1 0
2018 3.3 3.3 5 0 0
2017 4.3 3.1 7 0 0
2016 7.4 5.1 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · NY · Buffalo

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise 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 Arvada Store 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE VALLEYS, WORKS-CHARLOTTESVILLE PANTOPS 26 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Music City - Nolensville 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martinez 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE TC Electric 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Marquis Brooklyn 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE Instrumentation Laboratory 259 FTE
STATE-SIZE 25320201 PELHAM MANOR, NY 259 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 Bed Bath and Beyond Wilkes Barre 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ICON 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Teeny Foods Corp 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Viejas Casino 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Tysons Corner 115 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1058 - Paradise Valley Az Whse 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0368 - South St Louis Mo Whse 259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kremmling Memorial Hospital District 259 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: 2022, 2021, 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.