Machine shops · New York

Metal Locking Service INc.

Buffalo, NY · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Locking Service INc. runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Metal Locking Service INc.: 7.9 TCR = 238% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Locking Service INc. safety composite

Metal Locking Service INc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−9.6

2016→2020

Metal Locking Service INc. injury rate improved

Metal Locking Service INc.'s TCR fell 9.6 from 9.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 238% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #76/83
  • PHOTO Glunt Industries Pla…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glunt Industries Plant 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Locking Service INc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Locking Service INc. averages 7.9 TCR (238% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Locking Service INc. TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=9.7 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Locking Service INc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 83 Machine shops employers in New York.

Metal Locking Service INc. (19 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Locking Service INc.
Metal Locking Service INc. (19 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Metal Locking Service INc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.7 10.7 2 0 0
2018 9.7 9.7 2 0 0
2017 9.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 9.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · NY · Buffalo

1,821 Machine shops 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Glunt Industries Plant 2 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAA Sales & Engineering 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Parts and Equipment, LLC 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercury Corporation 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Chatham 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRANKLINVILLE CREW LOCATION-NY39 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOW SERVICE CENTER-NY41 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies NYC - Leroy Office 19 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 NE On Highway 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Washco Laundry Equipment, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Idiada Karco Engineeing LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Bismarck 7.9 TCR

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: 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.