Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing · New York

Zehnder Rittling

Buffalo, NY · ~117 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Zehnder Rittling runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Zehnder Rittling: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zehnder Rittling safety composite

Zehnder Rittling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Zehnder Rittling: 2.4 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Zehnder Rittling's TCR rose 3.4 from 2.4 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333414 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO JR Koop dba Therm Dy…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JR Koop dba Therm Dynamics (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New York employers → · Look up another →

Zehnder Rittling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zehnder Rittling averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Zehnder Rittling TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=7.9 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Zehnder Rittling falls in its industry

117 Heating equipment, hot water ( establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Heating equipment, hot water ( employers in New York.

Zehnder Rittling (117 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Zehnder Rittling
Zehnder Rittling (117 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Zehnder Rittling has more employees than the Heating equipment, hot water (except hot median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 5.9 4.9 6 0 0
2023 5.7 4.7 6 0 0
2019 7.9 6.2 9 0 0
2018 2.4 1.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333414 · NY · Buffalo

117 Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing 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 JR Koop dba Therm Dynamics 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodstock Soapstone Company Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glas-Col, L.L.C. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Furnace Company 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE O&R West Nyack 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gabriel Steel Erectors, Inc 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE D01 NYC Modernization 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wm. J. Keller & sons Construction Corp. 117 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 Times Supermarket - Kahala 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Thomaston 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trulite Glass & Aluminum 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hirschvogel Incorporated 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kuakini Geriatric Care Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flutes, INC 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE COMO Plant 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukie Stanley Infrastructure 117 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, 2019, 2018. 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.