Propane recovered from oil and gas field gases · New York

Irish Welding & Irish Propane

Buffalo, NY · ~73 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Irish Welding & Irish Propane runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Propane recovered from oil and gas field gases workplace, earning a grade F.

Irish Welding & Irish Propane: 4.8 TCR = 253% of Propane recovered from oil and gas field gases BLS 1.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Irish Welding & Irish Propane safety composite

Irish Welding & Irish Propane scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Irish Welding & Irish Propane: 4.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2020

Irish Welding & Irish Propane's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.0 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 211112 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 253% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK P7
  • PHOTO Waskom Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waskom Plant (0.9 TCR gap)

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Irish Welding & Irish Propane in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Irish Welding & Irish Propane averages 4.8 TCR (253% of the Propane recovered from oil and gas field gases BLS benchmark).

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

Irish Welding & Irish Propane TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 1.9

Where Irish Welding & Irish Propane falls in its industry

28 Propane recovered from oil and establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Irish Welding & Irish Propane (73 employees, TCR 4.8) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 1.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 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 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Irish Welding & Irish Propane
Irish Welding & Irish Propane (73 employees, TCR 4.8) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Irish Welding & Irish Propane has more employees than the Propane recovered from oil and gas field median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 5.5 5.5 4 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2018 7.1 2.9 5 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

211112 · NY · Buffalo

28 Propane recovered from oil and gas field gases 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 Waskom Plant 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherokee 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Central Gas Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Energy Inc. 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southview Dairy 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE LSP NY 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA SERVICE CENTER-NY35 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foster Avenue 73 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 WS Packaging Group, Inc Neenah 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary LIFE 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Christian Community Homes 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshall Payroll Services, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Black Roofing HQ 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal Coast Stucco Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Lake Chevrolet Cadillac 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE KC Jones Plating 73 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, 2018, 2017. 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.