Laminating metals and metal formed products without fabricating · New York

Koch Metal

Buffalo, NY · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Metal runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Laminating metals and metal formed products without fabricating workplace, earning a grade C.

Koch Metal: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Laminating metals and metal formed products without fabricating BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Metal safety composite

Koch Metal scores strongest on dart rate (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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.4

2017→2024

Koch Metal injury rate improved

Koch Metal's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=4.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/16
  • PHOTO Valence Surface Tech…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valence Surface Technologies Eastman Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Metal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Metal averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Laminating metals and metal formed products without fabricating BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Metal TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=4.6 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Metal falls in its industry

585 Laminating metals and metal fo establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 16 Laminating metals and metal fo employers in New York.

Koch Metal (40 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Koch Metal
Koch Metal (40 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Koch Metal has fewer employees than the Laminating metals and metal formed produ median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.1 2.5 2 0 0
2021 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · NY · Buffalo

585 Laminating metals and metal formed products without fabricating 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 Valence Surface Technologies Eastman Operations 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apollo Metals, Ltd. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electro-Max, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Providence Metallizing Co., Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bilow Farms, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constantine Construction and Farm, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burrows Bros. Inc. 40 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 Sauk Rapids Office 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Abw 114/118 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Shakopee Location 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MWC Group, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE SFO 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pender Nursery Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Yakima 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoover Treated Wood Products - Bakersfield 40 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, 2022, 2021, 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.