Food service contractors, cafeteria · California

Choicelunch

Hayward, CA · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Choicelunch runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food service contractors, cafeteria workplace, earning a grade F.

Choicelunch: 11.3 TCR = 376% of Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Choicelunch safety composite

Choicelunch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2022→2023

Choicelunch injury rate improved

Choicelunch's TCR fell 3.6 from 13.1 in 2022 to 9.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.1 · 2023=9.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Hayward, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 376% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #519/586
  • PHOTO 4021-000006689
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4021-000006689 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Choicelunch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Choicelunch averages 11.3 TCR (376% of the Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS benchmark).

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

Choicelunch TCR series: 2022=13.1 · 2023=9.4 · BLS 3.0

Where Choicelunch falls in its industry

6,952 Food service contractors, cafe establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #519 safest of 586 Food service contractors, cafe employers in California.

Choicelunch (64 employees, TCR 11.3) 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 Choicelunch
Choicelunch (64 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Choicelunch has more employees than the Food service contractors, cafeteria 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
2023 9.4 0.0 4 0 0
2022 13.1 4.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CA · Hayward

6,952 Food service contractors, cafeteria employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 336 employers in Hayward, CA · 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 4021-000006689 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASPC Perryville 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARBOR - EL PASO GRIDLEY SD 11 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Highland Prep 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDERA 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGS FARM LABOR CORPORATION 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arroyo Seco Vineyards, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 518 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 100 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 117 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Rose Hospital 929 FTE
NAT-TCR Tear A Part, LLC (Salt Lake City) 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atria North Point 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00493 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Merrill Gardens at the University 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Pointe Senior Living 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant/Field Departments 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA.PITTS.98 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc 64 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.