Food Services · North Carolina

500076100 Wake Forest Univ.

Winston-Salem, NC · ~426 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade D.

500076100 Wake Forest Univ.: 4.2 TCR = 141% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. safety composite

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

500076100 Wake Forest Univ.: 4.2 → 51.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 51.5 TCR · DART/TCR 4.07× in 2024

500076100 Wake Forest Univ.'s TCR rose 47.3 from 4.2 in 2023 to 51.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Winston-Salem, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 141% of ind

  • DART 17.2 DART
  • RANK #130/214
  • PHOTO LifeQuest Nursing Ce…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~426 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LifeQuest Nursing Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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500076100 Wake Forest Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500076100 Wake Forest Univ. averages 4.2 TCR (141% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=51.5 · BLS 3.0

Where 500076100 Wake Forest Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #130 safest of 214 Food Services employers in North Carolina.

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. (426 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 500076100 Wake Forest Univ.
500076100 Wake Forest Univ. (426 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500076100 Wake Forest Univ. 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 51.5 17.2 7 2 0
2023 4.2 2.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · NC · Winston-Salem

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, NC · 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 LifeQuest Nursing Center 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT BETHANY COLLEGE 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHD CLUB 2 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USMC E MH FC65 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jordan Lumber & Supply Inc 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Classic Graphics, LLC - Charlotte 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maxwell Foods Goldsboro Hog Farms 427 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doosan STA 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR Bon Secours St Francis Medical Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cusack Music, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gotham Logistics LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Overhead Door Co. of Omaha 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jabil Fremont 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summerville Medical Center 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belterra Park 426 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.