Distribution of natural gas · New York

MSW Dist.

Buffalo, NY · ~243 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MSW Dist. runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution of natural gas workplace, earning a grade F.

MSW Dist.: 5.2 TCR = 434% of Distribution of natural gas BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MSW Dist. safety composite

MSW Dist. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Rising injury rate

MSW Dist.: 3.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

MSW Dist.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 3.5 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221210 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 434% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #41/54
  • PHOTO 2601 LOGAN ST DALLAS…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~243 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2601 LOGAN ST DALLAS TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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MSW Dist. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MSW Dist. averages 5.2 TCR (434% of the Distribution of natural gas BLS benchmark).

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

MSW Dist. TCR series: 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4 · BLS 1.2

Where MSW Dist. falls in its industry

1,153 Distribution of natural gas establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 54 Distribution of natural gas employers in New York.

MSW Dist. (243 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MSW Dist.
MSW Dist. (243 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.6

MSW Dist. has more employees than the Distribution of natural gas median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 4.0 3.5 8 0 0
2023 5.6 5.1 11 0 0
2022 8.5 6.9 15 1 0
2021 4.4 3.9 8 1 0
2020 3.5 2.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221210 · NY · Buffalo

1,153 Distribution of natural gas 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 2601 LOGAN ST DALLAS TX 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAIUTE PIPELINE OFFICE & OPS CNTR 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Vernon District Office 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Navitas Utility Corporation 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodness Gardens Inc 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE K&A Engineering Consulting, P.C. 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suffolk Construction (New York) 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bancker Construction Corp. 243 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 S04803 - Braddon Hauling 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ITW Building Components Group Inc - Pontotoc, MS 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10374 Maui Mall Maui 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carmela Foods Distributing, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Universal Maintenance 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Johnson City - 0565 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10207 Tamarac 243 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Processing Center 243 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.