Caterers · Ohio

A Taste of Excellence, Inc.

Strongsville, OH · ~284 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. runs at 428% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Caterers workplace, earning a grade F.

A Taste of Excellence, Inc.: 12.8 TCR = 428% of Caterers BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. safety composite

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

A Taste of Excellence, Inc.: 16.5 → 18.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2023

A Taste of Excellence, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.6 from 16.5 in 2021 to 18.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722320 · Strongsville, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 428% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Bi-Rite Catering
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~284 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bi-Rite Catering (0.1 TCR gap)

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A Taste of Excellence, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A Taste of Excellence, Inc. averages 12.8 TCR (428% of the Caterers BLS benchmark).

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

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. TCR series: 2021=16.5 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=18.2 · BLS 3.0

Where A Taste of Excellence, Inc. falls in its industry

207 Caterers establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Caterers employers in Ohio.

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. (284 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 158 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A Taste of Excellence, Inc.
A Taste of Excellence, Inc. (284 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 158 employees and a TCR of 4.9

A Taste of Excellence, Inc. has more employees than the Caterers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2023 18.2 13.3 15 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 4 0 0
2021 16.5 6.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722320 · OH · Strongsville

207 Caterers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 104 employers in Strongsville, OH · 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 Bi-Rite Catering 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BOULDER CREEK WEDGEWOOD WEDDINGS 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newberry 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCOTILLO GOLF CLUB WEDGEWOOD WEDDINGS 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sammis 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE KDM SIGNS INC 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Chemical Spring Grove Site Cincinnati 284 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dimex 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strongsville Family Health & Surgery Center 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strongsville Fam Hlth Surg Ctr 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2266 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2266 372 FTE
NAT-TCR Alvarado Street Bakery 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Custom Harvesting Co., Inc. 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 203 Indianapolis 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GarCon, LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysco Indianapolis 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finelite, Union City 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Liner Foods Inc. 284 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Laminate 284 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.