Employer · Kentucky

NKU Norse Commons*

Newport, KY · ~34 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NKU Norse Commons* runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

NKU Norse Commons*: 5.5 TCR = 185% of industry BLS 3.0 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NKU Norse Commons* safety composite

NKU Norse Commons* scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

NKU Norse Commons*: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2023

NKU Norse Commons*'s TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 185% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #69/92
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT UMFK NOWLA…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT UMFK NOWLAND DINING HALL (0.0 TCR gap)

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NKU Norse Commons* in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NKU Norse Commons* averages 5.5 TCR (185% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

NKU Norse Commons* TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 3.0

Where NKU Norse Commons* falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #69 safest of 92 industry employers in Kentucky.

NKU Norse Commons* (34 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NKU Norse Commons*
NKU Norse Commons* (34 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

NKU Norse Commons* 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
2023 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2022 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2021 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2020 9.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.9 6.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · KY · Newport

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 36 employers in Newport, 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 UMFK NOWLAND DINING HALL 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT TULSA ELDERLY NUTR 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UHG - Eden Prairie Campus Cafe 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000006647 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Energy Transmission & Substation 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Utilities Commission 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brett Construction 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haydon Materials, LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR PL Marketing 2,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Divisions Maintenance Group 791 FTE
CITY-NEAR 014-00423 396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport Aquarium 257 FTE
NAT-TCR RK-025-Muncie ( RK-025 ) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flooring Liquidators, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0739 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gainesville Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a Renaissance Care Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE River Falls Schl Dist* 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaukauna Area SD * 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMBC Chick-fil-A* 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Mexico Tech * 34 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.