Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers · New York

Kenworth Buffalo

Lackawanna, NY · ~68 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kenworth Buffalo runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Kenworth Buffalo: 2.1 TCR = 97% of Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kenworth Buffalo safety composite

Kenworth Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2017→2024

Kenworth Buffalo injury rate improved

Kenworth Buffalo's TCR fell 1.2 from 4.1 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.0 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Lackawanna, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 97% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #11/44
  • PHOTO Seatlle
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seatlle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kenworth Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kenworth Buffalo averages 2.1 TCR (97% of the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kenworth Buffalo TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=2 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Kenworth Buffalo falls in its industry

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 44 Truck tractors, road, merchant employers in New York.

Kenworth Buffalo (68 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kenworth Buffalo
Kenworth Buffalo (68 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Kenworth Buffalo has more employees than the Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesale median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 2.9 1.5 2 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.1 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · NY · Lackawanna

1,333 Truck tractors, road, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 41 employers in Lackawanna, 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 Seatlle 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenworth of Mississippi, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenworth of PA Muncy 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Zone 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunnyside Farms, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater Farms LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE CURTIN DAIRY 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stauffer Farms LLC 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Time Release Sciences Inc. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 790 Ridge Road 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR 790-BVS-790 RIDGE ROAD 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR HM Buffalo 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Tokai Carbon GE LLC Hickman 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Front Range Energy LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Deacon Construction, LLC - OR 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SOLUT! 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dixie Crane services 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schilling Mokena 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lower Kuskokwim SD FDS 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runnings of Monticello 68 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.