Food Services · Texas

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ.

Abilene, TX · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade D.

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ.: 4.8 TCR = 161% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. safety composite

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.7

2023→2024

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. injury rate improved

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ.'s TCR fell 9.7 from 9.7 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Abilene, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #388/570
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT SCSU WASHI…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT SCSU WASHINGTON HALL RES DIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. averages 4.8 TCR (161% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. TCR series: 2023=9.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where 500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #388 safest of 570 Food Services employers in Texas.

500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. (51 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ.
500078600 Hardin Simmons Univ. (51 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500078600 Hardin Simmons 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.7 9.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TX · Abilene

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 238 employers in Abilene, TX · 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 SODEXO AT SCSU WASHINGTON HALL RES DIN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NHA OH 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lapeer Comm Schools* 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CENTER FOR FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Moore County Gin 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsmith 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Titan Directional Drilling 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Flow Liquid Measurement, Inc. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abilene CCD 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Tdh Construction Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalmar Solutions LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Otto's Care Center Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Carmel Communities, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Retreat at Berryville 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mbs - Augusta - Gypsum Msnry Glass 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland DC 51 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.