Food machinery repair and maintenance services · New York

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo

Waterloo, NY · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo runs at 401% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo: 8.4 TCR = 401% of Food machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo safety composite

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo: 0.0 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2021

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo's TCR rose 14.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 23.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Waterloo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 401% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #64/67
  • PHOTO McGinnis Brothers DB…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McGinnis Brothers DBA McCorkle Machine and Engineering (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo averages 8.4 TCR (401% of the Food machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=23.7 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=14.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo falls in its industry

2,560 Food machinery repair and main establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 67 Food machinery repair and main employers in New York.

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo (22 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo
Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo (22 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Hobart Service, Waterloo/Buffalo has fewer employees than the Food machinery repair and maintenance se median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 14.2 4.7 3 0 0
2020 7.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 23.7 0.0 5 0 0
2018 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · NY · Waterloo

2,560 Food machinery repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 23 employers in Waterloo, 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 McGinnis Brothers DBA McCorkle Machine and Engineering 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cromer Fresno 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIRK NATIONALEASE CO. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MH Sioux Falls 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turek Farms Management Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Cattle LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgecrest Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affinity Agriculture LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR del Lago Resort & Casino 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1705 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1705 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR HEP Materials Corp. 166 FTE
NAT-TCR 4818-WASP 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AMA - Ground Ops 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Arbor 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UltraTech Aerospace, Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hobart Service, Denver 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elgin FS (SSS,SAT) 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 099 Indianapolis, IN 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe 22 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: 2021, 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.