Roofing contractors · New York

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~29 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Roofing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 21% of Roofing contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. safety composite

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc.: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 8.05× in 2024

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 8.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238160 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 21% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #3/62
  • PHOTO Flynn BEC LP - Salt …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flynn BEC LP - Salt Lake City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (21% of the Roofing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

1,723 Roofing contractors establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 62 Roofing contractors employers in New York.

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc.
Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. (29 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Jos. A. Sanders & Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Roofing contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238160 · NY · Buffalo

1,723 Roofing contractors 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 Flynn BEC LP - Salt Lake City 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAN SHEPLER ROOFING, INC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRANS COASTAL CONSTRUCTION 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WxTite, LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walnut Ridge Dairy LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG&E Canandaigua 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Norwich 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Noble Wind Operations Churubusco NY 29 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 Southview Tech 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Keesen Landscape Management, Broomfield 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR La Grange Crane Service, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AC Hotel Louisville Downtown 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE SITECON Corporation 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trulieve Destin 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trulieve Dania Beach 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbine Label Company 29 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.