Employer · New York

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle

Buffalo, NY · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle: 4.0 TCR = 156% of industry BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle safety composite

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle held a steady TCR band

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.7 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.7 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO S04008 - Twin Bridge…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S04008 - Twin Bridges LF (0.0 TCR gap)

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Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle averages 4.0 TCR (156% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle TCR series: 2019=1.7 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle falls in its industry

288 industry establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 industry employers in New York.

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle
Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle (51 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 8.7 7.0 5 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · NY · Buffalo

288 industry 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 S04008 - Twin Bridges LF 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunny Farms Landfill 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Side Landfill Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S09296 - Great Oak Landfill 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watertown Hatchery 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 124th Street Business Office 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quest Builders Group 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE RP Oak Hill Building Company Inc. 51 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 Orscheln Farm and Home 176 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR US Michigan Holland 10985 Chicago Dr 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-6161-Pottery Barn 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Engineering- North Platte 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forum Energy Technologies - Sulphur 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forum Energy Technologies - Plantersville 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andersons Montgomery Plant Nutrient 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-995-West Elm 51 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, 2019. 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.