Fast-food restaurants · New York

Walden #24

Cheektowaga, NY · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walden #24 runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

Walden #24: 6.2 TCR = 208% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walden #24 safety composite

Walden #24 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Walden #24 held a steady TCR band

Walden #24's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=23.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Cheektowaga, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 208% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/38
  • PHOTO Legacy Wendy's-109
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legacy Wendy's-109 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walden #24 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walden #24 averages 6.2 TCR (208% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Walden #24 TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=23.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Walden #24 falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 38 Fast-food restaurants employers in New York.

Walden #24 (26 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Walden #24
Walden #24 (26 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Walden #24 has fewer employees than the Fast-food restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2022 23.7 11.8 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · NY · Cheektowaga

1,014 Fast-food restaurants 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 Legacy Wendy's-109 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR VITALIGENT LLC Modesto 357 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delgar Foods, LLC (D3) 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker's Drive-Thru - 110 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Volles Dairy Farm, LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG&E Mushroom Blvd 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RG&E Fillmore 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Fulton 26 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 Landavazo Brothers Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10336 Glastonbury 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10680 Vernon Hills 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 123 Bonita Springs 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aiken Mfg., Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abbey Color Incorporated 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 628 Business Park Blvd 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walton Process Technologies, Inc. 26 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, 2021, 2020. 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.