Protein Processing · New York

Stock Yards Buffalo

Blasdell, NY · ~51 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stock Yards Buffalo runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Protein Processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Stock Yards Buffalo: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Protein Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stock Yards Buffalo safety composite

Stock Yards Buffalo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Stock Yards Buffalo: 2.3 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Stock Yards Buffalo's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.3 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Blasdell, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Burgers' Smokehouse
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burgers' Smokehouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stock Yards Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stock Yards Buffalo averages 3.9 TCR (118% of the Protein Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Stock Yards Buffalo TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=0 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=9 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Stock Yards Buffalo falls in its industry

613 Protein Processing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Protein Processing employers in New York.

Stock Yards Buffalo (51 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stock Yards Buffalo
Stock Yards Buffalo (51 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Stock Yards Buffalo has fewer employees than the Protein Processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2023 9.0 9.0 5 0 0
2022 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2021 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.7 3.8 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NY · Blasdell

613 Protein Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 29 employers in Blasdell, 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 Burgers' Smokehouse 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Monte Meat Company 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 304 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monogram Quality Foods LLC 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watertown Hatchery 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 124th Street Business Office 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quest Builders Group 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE RP Oak Hill Building Company Inc. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lackawanna 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unit # 2453 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR 25320035 HAMBURG, NY 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2532-25320035 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Sundancer Electric 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR East Dallas TX Millwork 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mskos - Kosciusko 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wylde Ibis, LLC dba Artcraft Sign Company 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE okemah care center 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Occasions Event Rental 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE East River Energy 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youth Health Service Inc 51 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.