Hospice care services, in home · New York

Hospice Buffalo, Inc.

Cheektowaga, NY · ~348 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospice care services, in home workplace, earning a grade C.

Hospice Buffalo, Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 94% of Hospice care services, in home BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. safety composite

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−1.5

2016→2023

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. injury rate improved

Hospice Buffalo, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2017=2.9 · 2020=3.0 · 2022=5.0 · 2023=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Cheektowaga, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 94% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #128/180
  • PHOTO Hospice & Palliatice…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hospice & Palliatice Care Lake Norman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hospice Buffalo, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hospice Buffalo, Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (94% of the Hospice care services, in home BLS benchmark).

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

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=2.9 · 2020=3 · 2022=5 · 2023=6 · BLS 5.2

Where Hospice Buffalo, Inc. falls in its industry

3,635 Hospice care services, in home establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 180 Hospice care services, in home employers in New York.

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. (348 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hospice Buffalo, Inc.
Hospice Buffalo, Inc. (348 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hospice Buffalo, Inc. has more employees than the Hospice care services, in home median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 6.0 4.0 13 2 0
2022 5.0 3.3 9 3 0
2020 3.0 1.7 6 1 0
2017 2.9 2.5 4 3 0
2016 7.5 5.3 20 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · NY · Cheektowaga

3,635 Hospice care services, in home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, 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 Hospice & Palliatice Care Lake Norman 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patriot Care 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IQHC Austin MN 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alternate Solutions 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Interiors 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE BPD 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Atomization Technologies 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 2718 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Pride Solvents & Chemical 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Landmark of Midwest City 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Park 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pewabic Society, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbus, Oh Hauling Operations 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABC Coke 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanley Black and Decker 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford Markets LLC dba ShopRite of Milford 348 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 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.