Dairy · New York

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution

Cheektowaga, NY · ~162 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy workplace, earning a grade F.

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution: 10.9 TCR = 330% of Dairy BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution safety composite

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2019→2021

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution injury rate improved

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution's TCR fell 3.9 from 14.5 in 2019 to 10.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.5 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=10.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Cheektowaga, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 330% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #39/43
  • PHOTO Ehrmann Commonwealth…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New York employers → · Look up another →

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution averages 10.9 TCR (330% of the Dairy BLS benchmark).

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

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution TCR series: 2019=14.5 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution falls in its industry

457 Dairy establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 43 Dairy employers in New York.

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution (162 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution
UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution (162 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution has more employees than the Dairy median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021 10.6 9.4 17 2 0
2020 7.7 6.0 14 0 0
2019 14.5 13.3 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · NY · Cheektowaga

457 Dairy employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, 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 Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hastings Creamery LLC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIFEWAY WISCONSIN, INC 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sciame Construction, LLC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stebbins Engineering and Manufacturing Co. 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donato Plumbing Inc 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAY-NIGHT - 03 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR CRI - East Mid Michigan 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Region 3 - Ashland 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Care of Rogue Valley 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CrossRoads Plant 501 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nvnov - Lone Mountain Village 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42341c - Wayne Dc 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palm Valley Animal Society, PVAS 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE LA-LA-LANCASTER 162 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.