Fluid power valves and hose fittings manufacturing · New York

Power Drives Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~137 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Power Drives Inc. runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fluid power valves and hose fittings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Power Drives Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Fluid power valves and hose fittings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Power Drives Inc. safety composite

Power Drives Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2023→2024

Power Drives Inc. injury rate improved

Power Drives Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 2.2 in 2023 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.2 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332912 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO HPS PDX
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HPS PDX (0.0 TCR gap)

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Power Drives Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Power Drives Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Fluid power valves and hose fittings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Power Drives Inc. TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Power Drives Inc. falls in its industry

182 Fluid power valves and hose fi establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Fluid power valves and hose fi employers in New York.

Power Drives Inc. (137 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Power Drives Inc.
Power Drives Inc. (137 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Power Drives Inc. has more employees than the Fluid power valves and hose fittings man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2024 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2023 2.2 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332912 · NY · Buffalo

182 Fluid power valves and hose fittings 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 HPS PDX 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BELTSVILLE MD 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summers Rubber Co 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crissair Inc 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Champion Specialty Services, LLC @ Indian Point Nuclear Plant 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Plainview 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Carpentry Inc 137 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 Irving Plant 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ESCO 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoffman Construction Company 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Door Sales LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TEAM Environmental, LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Coast Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Highland Dallas 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE MH Masonry & Associates, Inc. 137 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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