Photovoltaic cells manufacturing · New York

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York

Buffalo, NY · ~221 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Photovoltaic cells manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Photovoltaic cells manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York safety composite

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2018

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334413 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #19/31
  • PHOTO Wolfspeed - Fayettev…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wolfspeed - Fayetteville, AR (0.0 TCR gap)

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Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York averages 0.9 TCR (28% of the Photovoltaic cells manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York falls in its industry

437 Photovoltaic cells manufacturi establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 31 Photovoltaic cells manufacturi employers in New York.

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York (221 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York
Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York (221 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Panasonic Eco Solutions Solar New York has more employees than the Photovoltaic cells manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2018 1.8 0.6 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334413 · NY · Buffalo

437 Photovoltaic cells 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wolfspeed - Fayetteville, AR 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Microchip Technology Inc Mount Holly Springs 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Semiconductor Austin 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLEDWorks LLC 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crosby Brownlie INC 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frozen 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tonoga Inc. d/b/a Taconic 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckingham Mfg. Co. Inc 221 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 ZWOLLE 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - CHAA 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Riser Foods Corporate 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Location #1 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE voestalpine Texas LLC 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE French Gerleman 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE G&W NC Laboratories, LLC 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 484 221 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.