Sports arena operators · New York

Western New York Arena LLC

Buffalo, NY · ~370 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western New York Arena LLC runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sports arena operators workplace, earning a grade D.

Western New York Arena LLC: 5.2 TCR = 168% of Sports arena operators BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western New York Arena LLC safety composite

Western New York Arena LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Western New York Arena LLC: 3.7 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

Western New York Arena LLC's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.7 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711310 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 168% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO Kiel Center Partners…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~370 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kiel Center Partners, LP (0.1 TCR gap)

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Western New York Arena LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western New York Arena LLC averages 5.2 TCR (168% of the Sports arena operators BLS benchmark).

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

Western New York Arena LLC TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 3.1

Where Western New York Arena LLC falls in its industry

233 Sports arena operators establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Sports arena operators employers in New York.

Western New York Arena LLC (370 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Western New York Arena LLC
Western New York Arena LLC (370 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Western New York Arena LLC has more employees than the Sports arena operators median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 6.7 3.7 9 0 0
2016 3.7 0.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711310 · NY · Buffalo

233 Sports arena operators 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 Kiel Center Partners, LP 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid Hudson Civic Center Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venue 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Center District 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Comfort Systems USA Syracuse 370 FTE
STATE-SIZE TATE'S WHOLESALE, LLC 370 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBANY NY 370 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nissha Medical Technologies 370 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 Holland - FW 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City (Ksgar) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland Gateway (Ohcgf) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Caguas Center (Prcag) 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Family Health Group, Inc. 370 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infastech 370 FTE
NAT-SIZE CDM Constructors Inc. 370 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeler Correctional 370 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: 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.