Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) · Iowa

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School

Grimes, IA · ~40 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School runs at 653% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) workplace, earning a grade F.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School: 19.6 TCR = 653% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School safety composite

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−18.6

2017→2023

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School injury rate improved

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School's TCR fell 18.6 from 23.6 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 41.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.6 · 2018=33.8 · 2019=41.5 · 2020=23.4 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Grimes, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 653% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #43/44
  • PHOTO 500077400 WESTERN CA…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500077400 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dallas Center-Grimes Community School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dallas Center-Grimes Community School averages 19.6 TCR (653% of the Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS benchmark).

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

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School TCR series: 2017=23.6 · 2018=33.8 · 2019=41.5 · 2020=23.4 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.0

Where Dallas Center-Grimes Community School falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 44 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Iowa.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School (40 employees, TCR 19.6) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dallas Center-Grimes Community School
Dallas Center-Grimes Community School (40 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dallas Center-Grimes Community School has fewer employees than the Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g 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 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 23.4 0.0 3 0 0
2019 41.5 15.6 8 0 0
2018 33.8 5.6 6 0 0
2017 23.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Grimes

6,952 Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 65 employers in Grimes, IA · 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 500077400 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 120614700 CHAUNCEY CONFERENCE CENTER 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRB ADMIN 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT MORAGA SCHOOL DISTRICT 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Office 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grimes - Main Store 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5748 315 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-03548 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Casun - Sunnyvale 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloud Group LLC 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Machinery Systems, LLC 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandhills Utility Services, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thorne research - Trade center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sojam, LLC dba Martin J. Braun 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Peoria 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.