Abrasive products manufacturing · New York

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY

Niagara Falls, NY · ~112 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY safety composite

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY: 4.1 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY's TCR rose 4.7 from 4.1 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Niagara Falls, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Cesco Plant
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cesco Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=5 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=8.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #10 safest of 15 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in New York.

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY (112 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY
Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY (112 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Washington Mills - Niagara Falls, NY has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing 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
2023 8.8 5.3 10 0 0
2022 7.5 3.7 6 2 0
2021 4.5 4.5 5 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 4 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 4 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 6 0 0
2017 4.1 2.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · NY · Niagara Falls

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 107 employers in Niagara Falls, 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 Cesco Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engis Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint-Gobain ABC Warren / Ampex Superabrasives 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Hills 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beak & Skiff Apple Farms, Inc. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mamais Contracting Corp 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structural Services of New York 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7207_16529 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Venture Forthe 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sevenson overall injury report 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Company 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1909 421 FTE
NAT-TCR OakHill 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Schmitz Grafton/Port Washington 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SSC-CT 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GRP Franklin 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Danvers Treatment Center 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preceptor Home Health & Hospice 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smt Inc 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roads & Transportation 112 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.