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

Fort Dodge Community School District

Fort Dodge, IA · ~62 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge Community School District runs at 346% 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.

Fort Dodge Community School District: 10.4 TCR = 346% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge Community School District safety composite

Fort Dodge Community School District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−25.4

2017→2024

Fort Dodge Community School District injury rate improved

Fort Dodge Community School District's TCR fell 25.4 from 25.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 25.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=25.4 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 346% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/44
  • PHOTO 500598800 EASTERN KE…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500598800 EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge Community School District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge Community School District averages 10.4 TCR (346% 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

Fort Dodge Community School District TCR series: 2017=25.4 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Fort Dodge Community School District falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #39 safest of 44 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge Community School District (62 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Fort Dodge Community School District
Fort Dodge Community School District (62 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fort Dodge Community School District has more 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 14.3 7.1 4 0 0
2022 10.3 3.5 3 0 0
2021 7.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 10.5 0.0 3 0 0
2018 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2017 25.4 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Fort Dodge

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 · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 500598800 EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- McPherson College 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARBOR - MORTON UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 709 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Dallas Center DCR9 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duane Arnold Energy Center 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Branch 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Concrete Construction, Inc. 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilkesboro Food Service Plant 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stein Distributing Company Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin County Health Care 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TXS018 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSJB Holdings, Inc. dba J&B Industrial Services 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Artis Senior Living of Reading 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & M Steel Company 62 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.