wired telecommunication carriers · New York

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24

Buffalo, NY · ~391 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical wired telecommunication carriers workplace, earning a grade A.

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24: 0.3 TCR = 40% of wired telecommunication carriers BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 safety composite

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Rising injury rate

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24: 0.0 → 0.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24's TCR rose 0.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517111 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO CT - Virtual - D
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~391 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CT - Virtual - D (0.0 TCR gap)

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NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 averages 0.3 TCR (40% of the wired telecommunication carriers BLS benchmark).

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

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 0.7

Where NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 falls in its industry

455 wired telecommunication carrie establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #3 safest of 17 wired telecommunication carrie employers in New York.

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 (391 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24
NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 (391 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 515 employees and a TCR of 4.0

NY_Cheektowaga_2875 Union Rd_ADBUFF24 has fewer employees than the wired telecommunication carriers 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 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517111 · NY · Buffalo

455 wired telecommunication carriers 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 CT - Virtual - D 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY_Middletown_2 Industrial Dr_TW272320 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 441-60070-74541 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 161-70336-22542 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 10779 Industry City 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Taft Road 034 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Irondequoit 067 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2840 - Valley Stream 391 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 Bagby & Russell Electric Company 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JACOR Contracting, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Douglas 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR H - Virtua Voorhees Hospital Campus 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Symmetry Medical, Inc. 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allen County Public Library 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sorenson Engineering, Inc. 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabtec Passenger Transit 391 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.