Food Services · Tennessee

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ.

Murfreesboro, TN · ~265 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade D.

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ.: 5.2 TCR = 172% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. safety composite

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ.: 3.5 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2017

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 3.5 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Murfreesboro, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 172% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #94/133
  • PHOTO Carnegie Hall
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~265 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carnegie Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. averages 5.2 TCR (172% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=6.8 · BLS 3.0

Where 500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 133 Food Services employers in Tennessee.

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. (265 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ.
500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. Univ. (265 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500185100 - Middle Tennessee St. 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
2017 6.8 6.8 7 1 0
2016 3.5 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TN · Murfreesboro

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 256 employers in Murfreesboro, TN · 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 Carnegie Hall 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OTIS College of Art Design 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hereford 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Drillers F &B LLC 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clayton Homes Rutledge 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE fischer USA Stainless Steel Tubing USA 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0695 - Cool Springs 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 3505 TCHULAHOMA ROAD 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Murfreesboro 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR TNNAS16 ASCENSION SAINT THOMAS RUTHERFORD 1,984 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BNA3 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BNA3 1,708 FTE
NAT-TCR Knight Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Middleburg Heights (Ohmid) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scs - 1655 Worldwide (Kywrw) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Drake-Williams Steel 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hammond/East Lake (Inham) 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNVAMD14 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA.ATLAN.348 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 265 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: 2017, 2016. 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.