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

Merill Area Public Schools

Merrill, WI · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merill Area Public Schools runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) workplace, earning a grade C.

Merill Area Public Schools: 3.2 TCR = 107% of Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) BLS 3.0 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merill Area Public Schools safety composite

Merill Area Public Schools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Merill Area Public Schools held a steady TCR band

Merill Area Public Schools's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Merrill, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/122
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT BURLINGTON…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT BURLINGTON CO INST OF TECH WES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merill Area Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merill Area Public Schools averages 3.2 TCR (107% 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

Merill Area Public Schools TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=16.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Merill Area Public Schools falls in its industry

6,952 Cafeteria food services contra establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 122 Cafeteria food services contra employers in Wisconsin.

Merill Area Public Schools (27 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Merill Area Public Schools
Merill Area Public Schools (27 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Merill Area Public Schools has fewer employees than the Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 16.1 8.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · WI · Merrill

6,952 Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 49 employers in Merrill, WI · 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 BURLINGTON CO INST OF TECH WES 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Catering 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chariho Regional SD 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAKEMED CARY 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Mills Corporate Office 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chilton Dairy, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooperative Resources International - Distribution Center 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steam Service Headquarters 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merrill Area Public Schools 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1366 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1366 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Merrill 200 FTE
NAT-TCR S04085 - WM of Kennewick 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S03058 - Waste Management of Martin County 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilson Farms Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanders Utility Construction Co., Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE N. E. Finch Co 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leisure Services Dept 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blair Community Schools 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Concrete of Georgia Gainesville 27 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.