Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding · New York

Materion - Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~202 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Materion - Buffalo runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding workplace, earning a grade A.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
20
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Materion - Buffalo's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.1 to the Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding BLS benchmark of 3.3 (34% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Materion - Buffalo's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 331491.

Where Materion - Buffalo falls in its industry

118 Nonferrous Metal (except Coppe establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Nonferrous Metal (except Coppe employers in New York.

Trend analysis for Materion - Buffalo

Between 2016 and 2024, Materion - Buffalo's Total Case Rate improved from 2.0 to 0.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 69% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 0.5, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 2.0, a spread of 1.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Materion - Buffalo recorded 20 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 20 injuries shown on this page for Materion - Buffalo are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331491 - Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 320,474 hours worked = 0.62 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Materion - Buffalo (this establishment) 1.13 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Bar, nonferrous metals (except aluminum, copper), made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 331491
New York state avg (all industries) 4.67 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Materion - Buffalo to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2023 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.4 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.0 3 0 0
2020 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2019 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2016 2.0 1.5 4 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Materion - Buffalo's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 34% of the Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding benchmark, Materion - Buffalo reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Materion - Buffalo's safety grade?
Materion - Buffalo has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 1.1 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding.
How many injuries has Materion - Buffalo reported?
Materion - Buffalo has reported 20 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2016. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.