General freight trucking, local · New York

Trucking, General Freight

Buffalo, NY · ~209 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trucking, General Freight runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade A.

Trucking, General Freight: 1.4 TCR = 32% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trucking, General Freight safety composite

Trucking, General Freight scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Trucking, General Freight: 0.8 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2017

Trucking, General Freight's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.8 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #8/85
  • PHOTO Ohio Sharonville Tra…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio Sharonville Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trucking, General Freight in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Trucking, General Freight averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Trucking, General Freight TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Trucking, General Freight falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 85 General freight trucking, loca employers in New York.

Trucking, General Freight (209 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Trucking, General Freight
Trucking, General Freight (209 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trucking, General Freight has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2017 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NY · Buffalo

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 Ohio Sharonville Transportation 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estes Truckload Management, LLC - Corporate - 625 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-Ft Worth 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville - VW 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 2326 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Nursing at Meadow hill 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE 25320143 MIDDLE VILLAGE, NY QUEENS 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilliard - Drive Train 209 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 19- Long Beach 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville - VW 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR South 501 MNE8 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NM-Albuquerque Menaul Call Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Elkhart 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Solutions : IS - FS - Northern USA 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Section 41 - Frisco, TX 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradley Airsort 85-171 (Ctbra) 209 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: 2017, 2016. 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.