Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing · New York

Simmers Buffalo

Tonawanda, NY · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Simmers Buffalo runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Simmers Buffalo: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Simmers Buffalo safety composite

Simmers Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Simmers Buffalo: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.74× in 2022

Simmers Buffalo's TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333923 · Tonawanda, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Crane 1 Services
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crane 1 Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Simmers Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Simmers Buffalo averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Simmers Buffalo TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Simmers Buffalo falls in its industry

157 Overhead traveling cranes manu establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #3 safest of 7 Overhead traveling cranes manu employers in New York.

Simmers Buffalo (42 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Simmers Buffalo
Simmers Buffalo (42 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Simmers Buffalo has fewer employees than the Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing median and a lower 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
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333923 · NY · Tonawanda

157 Overhead traveling cranes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 134 employers in Tonawanda, 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 Crane 1 Services 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Factory 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cummings Industries Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Handling Services, Inc 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE W D Henry & Sons Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreher Sunrise Farms LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genex Cooperative - Ithaca 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA Construction Management Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tonawanda Engine Plant 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sumitomo Rubber USA, LLC 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Praxair Technology Center 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linde Inc. 986 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Straehle + Hess USA, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Nsu Chic-Fil-a 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Va Aquarium 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Epocs Manufacturing Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE UltiMed, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lyft TBS Warehouse SAN 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE CM Tucker Lumber-Rock Hill 42 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.