Food Services · Texas

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ.

Dallas, TX · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade C.

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ.: 2.6 TCR = 86% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. safety composite

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ.: 2.6 → 96.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 96.1 TCR · DART/TCR 37.39× in 2024

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ.'s TCR rose 93.5 from 2.6 in 2023 to 96.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 37.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Dallas, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 86% of ind

  • DART 96.1 DART
  • RANK #222/570
  • PHOTO Cornell Commons
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cornell Commons (0.0 TCR gap)

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500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. averages 2.6 TCR (86% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=96.1 · BLS 3.0

Where 500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #222 safest of 570 Food Services employers in Texas.

500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. (61 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 500284900 Southern Methodist Univ.
500284900 Southern Methodist Univ. (61 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500284900 Southern Methodist 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
2024 96.1 96.1 3 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · TX · Dallas

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Cornell Commons 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HBS CHAO CENTER 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany State University Radium Campus 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carroll College PIT 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Muleshoe Dairy LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patriot Drilling LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXOMA SVC CTR 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEC-Cedar Park 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Tait Towers Manufacturing LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Delaware 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kurt J Lesker Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ozark Steel Fabricators, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 085 Philadelphia PA Barnhart Northeast Inc 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawndra Products, Incorporated 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina Civilworks Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heiden LLC 61 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.