Food Services · Pennsylvania

500278500 - West Chester Univ.

West Chester, PA · ~263 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500278500 - West Chester Univ. runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade B.

500278500 - West Chester Univ.: 1.9 TCR = 64% 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.18 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

500278500 - West Chester Univ.: 1.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2017

500278500 - West Chester Univ.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 1.7 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · West Chester, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #97/463
  • PHOTO FS-ST VINCENT BIRM
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FS-ST VINCENT BIRM (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 1.9 TCR (64% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

500278500 - West Chester Univ. TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=2.2 · BLS 3.0

Where 500278500 - West Chester Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #97 safest of 463 Food Services employers in Pennsylvania.

500278500 - West Chester Univ. (263 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 500278500 - West Chester Univ.
500278500 - West Chester Univ. (263 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 lower 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 2.2 2.2 3 0 0
2016 1.7 0.8 2 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 FS-ST VINCENT BIRM 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DIS BV Commissary 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT LYNN UNIVERSITY DINING COMMONS 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roosevelt Warm Springs 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saint Anne's Retirement Community 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE GIANT FOOD STORES 6447 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 12700 - Philadelphia 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley View Retirement Community 263 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 Autumn Care of Mocskville 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Derrick - Houston 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Electric - Vandalia 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Impresa Aerospace 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tacoma (Watac) 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Permian Drilling and Completions 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730180-IF 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solvay Mill 263 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.