Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · New York

KAI Rochester

Name: KAI Rochester Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Rochester, NY · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

KAI Rochester runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

KAI Rochester: 1.5 TCR = 70% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KAI Rochester safety composite

KAI Rochester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−0.8

2020→2021

KAI Rochester injury rate improved

KAI Rochester's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.9 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Rochester, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 70% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/9
PHOTO RW Connection
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RW Connection (0.0 TCR gap)

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Weimer Bearing

1.6
This site

1.5
RW Connection

1.5
202950 BALTIMO

1.5
9745-VALLEN DI

1.5

What this shows KAI Rochester averages 1.5 TCR (70% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

KAI Rochester TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where KAI Rochester falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Industrial supplies (except di employers in New York.

KAI Rochester (103 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

KAI Rochester has more employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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	1.1	0.0	1	0	0
2020	1.9	1.9	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · NY · Rochester

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	RW Connection	LANDISVILLE, PA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	202950 BALTIMORE HOSE MD65	BALTIMORE, MD	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Weimer Bearing & Transmission, Inc.	GERMANTOWN, WI	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	9745-VALLEN DISTRIBUTION INC-000921_US_S0336	PASADENA, TX	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Christie Avenue Reporting Ctr.	NY	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cedar Creek	WANTAGH	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Hayner Hoyt Corporation	SYRACUSE	103 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mclo Structural Steel Corp.	RONKONKOMA	103 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Division 50 University of Rochester	Rochester	13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rochester General Hospital	Rochester	7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Division 40 University of Rochester	Rochester	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Unity Hospital	Rochester	3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR	FedEx Office Phoenix Manufacturing Plant	Tempe, AZ	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Embraer Executive Jet Services LLC BDL	Windsor Locks, CT	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Minnesota Office	Lakeville, MN	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kautex - Lavonia	Lavonia, GA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	LP Madison, LLC	Madison, TN	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hi-Lex Controls, in (Hcic)	Litchfield, MI	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Veritiv Operating Company - UT013	Salt Lake City, UT	103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sandy Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center	Atlanta, GA	103 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. 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.