Food service contractors, cafeteria · Illinois

Collaboration Cafe

Name: Collaboration Cafe Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chicago, IL · ~13 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 3.0
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Collaboration Cafe runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food service contractors, cafeteria workplace, earning a grade F.

Collaboration Cafe: 9.7 TCR = 325% of Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Collaboration Cafe safety composite

Collaboration Cafe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−19.5

2019→2023

Collaboration Cafe injury rate improved

Collaboration Cafe's TCR fell 19.5 from 19.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=19.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 325% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #302/364
PHOTO BCATS ADMIN
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BCATS ADMIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.7
BCATS ADMIN

9.7
SODEXO AT UM O

9.7
Illinois Sport

9.7
Buffalo Sports

9.7

What this shows Collaboration Cafe averages 9.7 TCR (325% of the Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS benchmark).

Collaboration Cafe TCR series: 2019=19.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Collaboration Cafe falls in its industry

6,952 Food service contractors, cafe establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #302 safest of 364 Food service contractors, cafe employers in Illinois.

Collaboration Cafe (13 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Collaboration Cafe has fewer 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	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2019	19.5	6.5	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Chicago

6,952 Food service contractors, cafeteria employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	BCATS ADMIN	CHARLOTTE, NC	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SODEXO AT UM ORONO YORK DINING	ORONO, ME	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Illinois Sportservice, Inc.	CHICAGO, IL	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buffalo Sportservice, LLC	BUFFALO, NY	9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	D2 Mt Carroll Yard	MT. CARROLL	13 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D5 Clinton Yard	CLINTON	13 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D9 Belgrade Yard	METROPOLIS	13 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D3 Gibson City Yard	GIBSON CITY	13 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago Public Schools	Chicago	49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chicago/Corporate	Chicago	18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Illinois at Chicago	Chicago	13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University Health Service UIC UIC Campus	Chicago	12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kensington Center	Elizabethtown, KY	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bethesda Care Center	Fremont, OH	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Novalis, LLC	Dalton, GA	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	HG593	Huntington Beach, CA	9.7 TCR

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, 2019. 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.