Employer · Kentucky

Fidel-HoweCafe

Covington, KY · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fidel-HoweCafe runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Fidel-HoweCafe: 8.0 TCR = 267% of industry BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fidel-HoweCafe safety composite

Fidel-HoweCafe scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−0.8

2023→2024

Fidel-HoweCafe injury rate improved

Fidel-HoweCafe's TCR fell 0.8 from 8.4 in 2023 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.4 · 2024=7.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Covington, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 267% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #77/92
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT BETHANY LU…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOOD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fidel-HoweCafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fidel-HoweCafe averages 8.0 TCR (267% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Fidel-HoweCafe TCR series: 2023=8.4 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.0

Where Fidel-HoweCafe falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 92 industry employers in Kentucky.

Fidel-HoweCafe (31 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Fidel-HoweCafe
Fidel-HoweCafe (31 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fidel-HoweCafe has fewer employees than the industry 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
2024 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2023 8.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · KY · Covington

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 77 employers in Covington, KY · 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 SODEXO AT BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE FOOD 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT TENET LOS ALAMITOS MED CTR EVS 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Romulus* 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oklahoma City CC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hwy 64 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Carlisle 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geothermal Earthworks Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Farms 747 FTE
CITY-NEAR Club Chef LLC 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Covington 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northkey Community Care 343 FTE
NAT-TCR Chelsea Place Care Center LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MOM's Organic Market - Bowie 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse ,Buda ,TX 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #288 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sp-Sacred Heart Hosp 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prisma-Oconee Memorial Hospital 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Heights Med 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston WV Vend 31 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: 2024, 2023. 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.