Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing · New York

Oliver Gear Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~17 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oliver Gear Inc. runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Oliver Gear Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oliver Gear Inc. safety composite

Oliver Gear Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Oliver Gear Inc.: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Oliver Gear Inc.'s TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333612 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO SEW-Eurodrive, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SEW-Eurodrive, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oliver Gear Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oliver Gear Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Oliver Gear Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=7 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Oliver Gear Inc. falls in its industry

106 Gears, power transmission (exc establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #6 safest of 11 Gears, power transmission (exc employers in New York.

Oliver Gear Inc. (17 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Oliver Gear Inc.
Oliver Gear Inc. (17 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Oliver Gear Inc. has fewer employees than the Gears, power transmission (except aircra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.1 5.1 0 1 0
2018 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333612 · NY · Buffalo

106 Gears, power transmission (except aircraft, motor vehicle), manufacturing 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 SEW-Eurodrive, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Gear 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hub City, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nord Gear Corp 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New York LLC.-Riverhead 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ivy Acres- PA 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linwood Management Group LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainey Substation 17 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 Sodexo at Saint Peter'S University 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6691 Corona 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elrods Cost Plus #7 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PL Developments 3.5 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: 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.