Asphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials · New York

Suit-Kote Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suit-Kote Buffalo runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Asphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Suit-Kote Buffalo: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Asphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suit-Kote Buffalo safety composite

Suit-Kote Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Suit-Kote Buffalo: 0.0 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2018

Suit-Kote Buffalo's TCR rose 12.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324121 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Blevins Asphalt Mt. …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blevins Asphalt Mt. Vernon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suit-Kote Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suit-Kote Buffalo averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Asphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials BLS benchmark).

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

Suit-Kote Buffalo TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=12.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Suit-Kote Buffalo falls in its industry

131 Asphalt road compounds made fr establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #5 safest of 7 Asphalt road compounds made fr employers in New York.

Suit-Kote Buffalo (19 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Suit-Kote Buffalo
Suit-Kote Buffalo (19 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Suit-Kote Buffalo has fewer employees than the Asphalt road compounds made from purchas median and a higher 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
2018 12.5 6.3 2 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

324121 · NY · Buffalo

131 Asphalt road compounds made from purchased asphaltic materials 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 Blevins Asphalt Mt. Vernon 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walter R Earle Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suit-Kote Polkville 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Energy Corporation 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Chatham 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRANKLINVILLE CREW LOCATION-NY39 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOW SERVICE CENTER-NY41 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Companies NYC - Leroy Office 19 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 Bg-Mcd#2 Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 12 - Theisen's - Marshalltown 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OCY - CBCC Stoughton 4.2 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: 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.