Hockey teams, professional or semiprofessional · New York

Hockey Western New York, LLC

Buffalo, NY · ~216 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.5
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hockey Western New York, LLC runs at 693% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hockey teams, professional or semiprofessional workplace, earning a grade F.

Hockey Western New York, LLC: 21.5 TCR = 693% of Hockey teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hockey Western New York, LLC safety composite

Hockey Western New York, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2016→2018

Hockey Western New York, LLC injury rate improved

Hockey Western New York, LLC's TCR fell 4.9 from 24.0 in 2016 to 19.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 24.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.0 · 2018=19.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711211 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 21.5 · 693% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Arizona League Angel…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 80 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arizona League Angels Minor League Facility - Players (0.3 TCR gap)

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Hockey Western New York, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hockey Western New York, LLC averages 21.5 TCR (693% of the Hockey teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS benchmark).

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

Hockey Western New York, LLC TCR series: 2016=24 · 2018=19 · BLS 3.1

Where Hockey Western New York, LLC falls in its industry

157 Hockey teams, professional or establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Hockey teams, professional or employers in New York.

Hockey Western New York, LLC (216 employees, TCR 21.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hockey Western New York, LLC
Hockey Western New York, LLC (216 employees, TCR 21.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Hockey Western New York, LLC has more employees than the Hockey teams, professional or semiprofes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2018 19.0 7.0 41 0 0
2016 24.0 11.7 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711211 · NY · Buffalo

157 Hockey teams, professional or semiprofessional 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 Arizona League Angels Minor League Facility - Players 21.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2039-OGDEN RAPTORS 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fever Basketball LLC 22.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 55-Suffern Distribution Center 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Generating Station 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardoza Plumbing Corp. 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca 216 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 North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI3 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 224 Millennium Knickerbocker, Chicago 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Citizens Fire Department 21.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise 21.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galveston Waterpark Management Inc. 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Laundry 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rusk Rehabilitation Center 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE MaineGeneral - Hathaway Creative Center 216 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: 2018, 2016. 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.