Beds, hospital, manufacturing · New York

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beds, hospital, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Beds, hospital, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. safety composite

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Townsend Industries …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Townsend Industries Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Beds, hospital, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=13.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. falls in its industry

555 Beds, hospital, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Beds, hospital, manufacturing employers in New York.

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. (38 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc.
HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. (38 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

HARD Manufacturing Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Beds, hospital, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 13.1 13.1 2 3 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · NY · Buffalo

555 Beds, hospital, 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 Townsend Industries Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spinal Systems, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSE Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Augustine Temperature Management 5.2 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 Quitman Plant 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitatoe Industries 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Urban Tree Farm Nursery, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabinet Components and Distribution dba Bayer Interior Woods 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kempton Construction LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVDMD-Cone-Cardiovascular Division MDs 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Associates 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE OmniSource, LLC. - Kernersville 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, 2022. 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.