Food Services · Pennsylvania

500278500 West Chester Univ.

West Chester, PA · ~241 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500278500 West Chester Univ. runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500278500 West Chester Univ.: 16.8 TCR = 561% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500278500 West Chester Univ. safety composite

500278500 West Chester Univ. 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 16.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.92 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

500278500 West Chester Univ.: 7.8 → 25.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 25.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

500278500 West Chester Univ.'s TCR rose 18.2 from 7.8 in 2023 to 25.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · West Chester, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 561% of ind

  • DART 25.9 DART
  • RANK #453/463
  • PHOTO Kasson-Mantorville I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~241 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kasson-Mantorville ISD#204 (0.0 TCR gap)

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500278500 West Chester Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500278500 West Chester Univ. averages 16.8 TCR (561% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500278500 West Chester Univ. TCR series: 2023=7.8 · 2024=25.9 · BLS 3.0

Where 500278500 West Chester Univ. 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 Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #453 safest of 463 Food Services employers in Pennsylvania.

500278500 West Chester Univ. (241 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 500278500 West Chester Univ.
500278500 West Chester Univ. (241 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500278500 West Chester 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 25.9 25.9 3 0 0
2023 7.8 7.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · PA · West Chester

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 171 employers in West Chester, PA · 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 Kasson-Mantorville ISD#204 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNIV OF MT UNION** 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SARAH LAWRENCE VENDING** 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1533 Gloucester City SD 16.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE UGI Empire 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFP New Holland 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newman & Company 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE Horseshoe Facility 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester County Hospital 2,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR QVC, Inc. (Studio Park) 2,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes West Chester 2,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes Sales West Chester 1,265 FTE
NAT-TCR Fred Wahl Marine Construction, Inc. 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Springbrook Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartel's Disposal 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MCI - Ground Ops 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway LLC - Motiva Refinery - Port Arthur 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Dairymen of Arizona (Main Plant) 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 098 241 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manteno Rise Baking Company 241 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.