Food Services · Ohio

400239600 Lorain City Schools

Lorain, OH · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

400239600 Lorain City Schools runs at 557% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

400239600 Lorain City Schools: 16.7 TCR = 557% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

400239600 Lorain City Schools safety composite

400239600 Lorain City Schools scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

400239600 Lorain City Schools: 9.8 → 23.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

400239600 Lorain City Schools's TCR rose 13.9 from 9.8 in 2023 to 23.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 557% of ind

  • DART 23.6 DART
  • RANK #216/221
  • PHOTO Oak Creek-Franklin JSD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Creek-Franklin JSD (0.0 TCR gap)

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400239600 Lorain City Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 400239600 Lorain City Schools averages 16.7 TCR (557% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

400239600 Lorain City Schools TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=23.6 · BLS 3.0

Where 400239600 Lorain City Schools falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #216 safest of 221 Food Services employers in Ohio.

400239600 Lorain City Schools (77 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 400239600 Lorain City Schools
400239600 Lorain City Schools (77 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

400239600 Lorain City Schools has more employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 23.6 23.6 1 0 0
2023 9.8 7.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · OH · Lorain

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, OH · 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 Oak Creek-Franklin JSD 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Palma 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT NOVO NORDISK IFP 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis Kitchen 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zanesville Svc Ctr 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandview Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Gas Company 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Dave's Killer Bread 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR West Chicago Fire Protection District 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Healthcare Glasgow 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HG630 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodland 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Means Engineering 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double Aught Lumber 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conroe Health Care Center 77 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.