Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers · New York

Umbra Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Umbra Buffalo runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Umbra Buffalo: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Umbra Buffalo safety composite

Umbra Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Umbra Buffalo held a steady TCR band

Umbra Buffalo's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423220 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Sugar Land Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sugar Land Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Umbra Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Umbra Buffalo averages 2.4 TCR (108% of the Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Umbra Buffalo TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Umbra Buffalo falls in its industry

146 Window shades and blinds merch establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 5 Window shades and blinds merch employers in New York.

Umbra Buffalo (37 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Umbra Buffalo
Umbra Buffalo (37 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Umbra Buffalo has fewer employees than the Window shades and blinds merchant wholes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423220 · NY · Buffalo

146 Window shades and blinds merchant wholesalers 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 Sugar Land Plant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARCHITECTURAL WINDOW SHADES 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omega Moulding CA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reico Kitchen & Bath - Raleigh 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kludt Brothers Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hamptonburgh 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cruikshank Farms LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main farm 37 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 Glazers Beer And Beverage North Little Rock 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth USPS Tracy 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill West Fargo Crush 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR QuantumClean - Hillsboro 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alta Enterprises LLC- Davie 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Enterprises LLC- Jacksonville 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br2 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intec 37 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, 2021. 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.