Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing · New York

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~170 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo runs at 538% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo: 17.8 TCR = 538% of Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo safety composite

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

−4.6

2022→2024

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo injury rate improved

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo's TCR fell 4.6 from 21.1 in 2022 to 16.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=21.1 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=16.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 538% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #43/43
  • PHOTO Open Gates Farmers A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo averages 17.8 TCR (538% of the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo TCR series: 2022=21.1 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=16.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo falls in its industry

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), m establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #43 safest of 43 Milk, fluid (except canned), m employers in New York.

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo (170 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo
Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo (170 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo has more employees than the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturi 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
2024 16.5 14.8 29 1 0
2023 15.7 14.6 28 1 0
2022 21.1 14.1 28 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · NY · Buffalo

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing 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 Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0045-0045-08416 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE E. 110th St 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAY-NIGHT PLUMBING, HEATING & COOLING CORP. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Katz Gluten Free 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint-Gobain Hoosick Falls 170 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 MACCRAY Secondary 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QLS Apollo 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Surface Creations of Maine LLC 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GPM Landscape 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heffron Company 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambassador Centerville Management LLC 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perquimans County 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morgan Olson Plants 1, 2, &3 170 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.