Home centers, building materials · New York

Valu Home Center #17

Buffalo, NY · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valu Home Center #17 runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home centers, building materials workplace, earning a grade D.

Valu Home Center #17: 6.5 TCR = 192% of Home centers, building materials BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valu Home Center #17 safety composite

Valu Home Center #17 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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

−8.9

2016→2024

Valu Home Center #17 injury rate improved

Valu Home Center #17's TCR fell 8.9 from 8.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=10.0 · 2020=24.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #252/320
  • PHOTO 6989 BULVERDE
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6989 BULVERDE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valu Home Center #17 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valu Home Center #17 averages 6.5 TCR (192% of the Home centers, building materials BLS benchmark).

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

Valu Home Center #17 TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=10 · 2020=24.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Valu Home Center #17 falls in its industry

6,309 Home centers, building materia establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #252 safest of 320 Home centers, building materia employers in New York.

Valu Home Center #17 (22 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valu Home Center #17
Valu Home Center #17 (22 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Valu Home Center #17 has fewer employees than the Home centers, building materials median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 24.2 8.1 3 0 0
2019 10.0 10.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NY · Buffalo

6,309 Home centers, building materials 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 6989 BULVERDE 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moneta Farm & Home Center, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2895 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2698 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turek Farms Management Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Cattle LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgecrest Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affinity Agriculture LLC 22 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 Brookdale Springs Mesa 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Banos 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vitracoat America, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #233 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ekstrom & Schmidt Nursery, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valley Gin Company 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #33 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 22 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, 2017, 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.