Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance · New York

Hazmat Buffalo

Lackawanna, NY · ~141 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hazmat Buffalo runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance workplace, earning a grade C.

Hazmat Buffalo: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hazmat Buffalo safety composite

Hazmat Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.5

2019→2020

Hazmat Buffalo injury rate improved

Hazmat Buffalo's TCR fell 4.5 from 5.9 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.9 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Lackawanna, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #15/21
  • PHOTO Caledonia Haulers Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caledonia Haulers Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hazmat Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hazmat Buffalo averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Hazmat Buffalo TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Hazmat Buffalo falls in its industry

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 21 Trucking, specialized freight employers in New York.

Hazmat Buffalo (141 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hazmat Buffalo
Hazmat Buffalo (141 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Hazmat Buffalo has more employees than the Trucking, specialized freight (except us median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2019 5.9 5.3 6 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · NY · Lackawanna

1,026 Trucking, specialized freight (except used goods), long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 41 employers in Lackawanna, 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 Caledonia Haulers Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Lovington 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alvin Yard 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Action Resources - Ponca City 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 90004050-Farley Trail Hall JV 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peckham Road Corp 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palatial Concrete Ltd. 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAY SHORE NY DEPOT 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Time Release Sciences Inc. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 790 Ridge Road 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR 790-BVS-790 RIDGE ROAD 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR HM Buffalo 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland Express Rancho Cucamonga 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Volunteer Fire Department - Willington Hill F.D. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 251 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc. - North Cobb 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Hospital - MOB 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE LABOR 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft Wayne Refurb Center 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocean View Flowers, LLC 141 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.