Food Warehouse Distribution · New York

US Foods Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~227 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US Foods Buffalo runs at 621% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Warehouse Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

US Foods Buffalo: 13.7 TCR = 621% of Food Warehouse Distribution BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US Foods Buffalo safety composite

US Foods Buffalo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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 13.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

US Foods Buffalo: 7.5 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

US Foods Buffalo's TCR rose 10.7 from 7.5 in 2016 to 18.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 621% of ind

  • DART 18.3 DART
  • RANK #62/72
  • PHOTO Wholesale Distributor
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 191 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wholesale Distributor (0.0 TCR gap)

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US Foods Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US Foods Buffalo averages 13.7 TCR (621% of the Food Warehouse Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

US Foods Buffalo TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2018=15.9 · 2019=15 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=13.6 · 2022=18.2 · 2024=18.3 · BLS 2.2

Where US Foods Buffalo falls in its industry

1,651 Food Warehouse Distribution establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 72 Food Warehouse Distribution employers in New York.

US Foods Buffalo (227 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate US Foods Buffalo
US Foods Buffalo (227 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

US Foods Buffalo has more employees than the Food Warehouse Distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 18.3 18.3 38 0 0
2022 18.2 18.2 34 2 0
2021 13.6 13.1 24 1 0
2020 7.2 6.6 13 0 0
2019 15.0 14.0 31 0 0
2018 15.9 14.9 33 0 0
2016 7.5 7.5 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NY · Buffalo

1,651 Food Warehouse Distribution 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 Wholesale Distributor 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nappies Food Service 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - SANTA FE SPRINGS 38211 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transportation : Bethlehem IV, PA (WR) 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monadnock Construction, Inc. 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE RW Dake Construction 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Billitier Electric Inc 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiCarlo Distributors 227 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 Life Care Center of Kennewick 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Die Cast LLC 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valu Home Center #45 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 192 - Rockford IL 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springdale Ar 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Infant and Maternity Home 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saft America Inc 227 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.