Blood banks · New York

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC

Buffalo, NY · ~196 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade D.

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC: 5.5 TCR = 145% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC safety composite

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC: 4.0 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2020

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC's TCR rose 5.1 from 4.0 in 2018 to 9.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/21
  • PHOTO Carrollton-Josey, TX…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carrollton-Josey, TX - Biomat (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upstate NY Transplant Services INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upstate NY Transplant Services INC averages 5.5 TCR (145% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=9.1 · BLS 3.8

Where Upstate NY Transplant Services INC falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

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 21 Blood banks employers in New York.

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC (196 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 Upstate NY Transplant Services INC
Upstate NY Transplant Services INC (196 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Upstate NY Transplant Services INC has more employees than the Blood banks median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 9.1 1.1 16 0 0
2019 3.5 1.5 7 0 0
2018 4.0 0.0 1 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · NY · Buffalo

1,713 Blood banks 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 Carrollton-Josey, TX - Biomat 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Immunotek BioCenter, LLC - Irving, TX 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Blood Services-Cheyenne 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pasco, WA-BioLife 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saputo Dairy Foods 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Currier Plastics 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hicks Nurseries, Inc 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE WILTON #039 196 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 ADC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Moline Il Depot 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent A Car (Ft. Walton Airport) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1016 Baytown, TX 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medical Facilities of America Corporate 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEA - Ground Ops 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMS Brookfield 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holloway Houston Inc 196 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.