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

Lake Forest High School

Lake Forest, IL · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Forest High School runs at 810% 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.

Lake Forest High School: 24.3 TCR = 810% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Forest High School safety composite

Lake Forest High School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 24.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Lake Forest High School: 24.3 → 93.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 93.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Lake Forest High School's TCR rose 68.7 from 24.3 in 2016 to 93.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 24.3 · 810% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #363/364
  • PHOTO 000010323 SCHOOL DIS…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 000010323 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WAUKESHA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Forest High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Forest High School averages 24.3 TCR (810% 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

Lake Forest High School TCR series: 2016=24.3 · 2018=93 · BLS 3.0

Where Lake Forest High School falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #363 safest of 364 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Illinois.

Lake Forest High School (14 employees, TCR 24.3) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Forest High School
Lake Forest High School (14 employees, TCR 24.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Lake Forest High 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
2018 93.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 24.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IL · Lake 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 · 50 employers in Lake Forest, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 000010323 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WAUKESHA 24.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pipestone Area Schools 24.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 110031000 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY 24.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 400253700 DECATUR SD 61 24.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Gas Standards 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Method Construction LLC 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE United North Airfield 17090008 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Construction Systems, Inc. 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR US - Corporate : 0G01 2,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G01 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 2,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL 1,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0G11 - CORP LAKE FOREST, IL 1,044 FTE
NAT-TCR Thor Motor Coach/850 lamination 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OCSD Inmate Services Division - Food Services 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZNRC 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Learning Tree Inc 24.3 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: 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.