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

Dominican University

River Forest, IL · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dominican University runs at 484% 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.

Dominican University: 14.5 TCR = 484% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dominican University safety composite

Dominican University scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dominican University: 7.5 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 39.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Dominican University's TCR rose 6.3 from 7.5 in 2016 to 13.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 39.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · River Forest, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 484% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #344/364
  • PHOTO 610819500 SURPRISE S…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 610819500 SURPRISE SPRING TRAINING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dominican University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dominican University averages 14.5 TCR (484% 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

Dominican University TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2018=39.5 · 2019=11.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=13.8 · BLS 3.0

Where Dominican University falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #344 safest of 364 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Illinois.

Dominican University (37 employees, TCR 14.5) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dominican University
Dominican University (37 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dominican University 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
2022 13.8 0.0 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 11.8 0.0 3 0 0
2018 39.5 7.9 10 0 0
2016 7.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · River Forest

6,952 Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 16 employers in River Forest, IL · 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 610819500 SURPRISE SPRING TRAINING 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones-Harrison 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Wisconsin Ike Shaffer Commons 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production Services of Maine, LLC 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR 22PK-SEG1-22PK 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003223 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-03223 FAC-03223-RIVER FOREST-IL 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03223 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Services Department 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets Edmonds 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MAF - Ground Ops 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG801 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill of Colorado S. Wadsworth 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill of Colorado Broadway 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMG-Los Lunas 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Star at Woodland Terrace 37 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.