Food Services · Delaware

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader

Name: 500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader Workplace Safety Data
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Newark, DE · ~250 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.9
Avg TCR: 3.0
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader: 7.9 TCR = 263% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader safety composite

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.91 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%).

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader held a steady TCR band

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader's TCR held near 0.3 from 7.7 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.7 · 2017=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Newark, DE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 263% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #18/23
PHOTO Pioneer College Cate…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~250 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 026/Chowan University (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows 500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader averages 7.9 TCR (263% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=8.1 · BLS 3.0

Where 500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Food Services employers in Delaware.

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader (250 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500288200 - Univ. of Delaware-Pencader 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	8.1	6.9	7	0	0
2016	7.7	6.6	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · DE · Newark

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 026/Chowan University	MURFREESBORO, NC	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ELIM PARK BAPTIST HOME INC	CHESHIRE, CT	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RAID ADMIN	LAS VEGAS, NV	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GA Foods_US Others	COVINGTON, GA	7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ALOFT AeroArchitects	GEORGETOWN	249 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HARRINGTON (DEMIL)	HARRINGTON	251 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6458-ZSAL	SEAFORD	249 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dogfish Head Craft Brewery	MILTON	253 FTE
CITY-NEAR	50 Christiana	Newark	11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Newark Site	Newark	1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK	Newark	1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DuPont Electronic Materials	Newark	653 FTE
NAT-TCR	N and R of St Charles LLC	St Charles, MO	7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	4113-41131003-R54	Livonia, MI	7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heartland Health Care Center - Livonia	Livonia, MI	7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Office	Littleton, CO	7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Waldorf (Mdwal)	Waldorf, MD	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alliance Residential, LLC/Corporate Headquarters	Phoenix, AZ	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Prospect TPA	Tampa, FL	250 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Global Container Terminal New York	Staten Island, NY	250 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.