Food service contractors, cafeteria · Iowa

Northwestern College

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Orange City, IA · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.6
Avg TCR: 3.0
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Northwestern College runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food service contractors, cafeteria workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwestern College: 9.6 TCR = 321% of Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwestern College safety composite

Northwestern College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Northwestern College: 8.4 → 17.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2023

Northwestern College's TCR rose 9.1 from 8.4 in 2019 to 17.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Orange City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 321% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK #37/44
PHOTO 4021-620172700
BOOK 5y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4021-620172700 (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.6
4021-620172700

9.6
SODEXO AT BURL

9.6
SODEXO AT DELT

9.6
Logan Aluminum

9.6

What this shows Northwestern College averages 9.6 TCR (321% of the Food service contractors, cafeteria BLS benchmark).

Northwestern College TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=12.6 · 2023=17.6 · BLS 3.0

Where Northwestern College falls in its industry

6,952 Food service contractors, cafe establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 44 Food service contractors, cafe employers in Iowa.

Northwestern College (48 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Northwestern College has more employees than the Food service contractors, cafeteria 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
2023	17.6	4.4	4
2022	12.6	0.0	3
2021	4.3	4.3	1
2020	5.1	5.1	1
2019	8.4	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Orange City

6,952 Food service contractors, cafeteria employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Orange City, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	4021-620172700	SAN JOSE, CA	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SODEXO AT BURLINGTON CO INST OF TECHNOLOGY	MOUNT HOLLY, NJ	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SODEXO AT DELTA SKY CLUB RDU AC	MORRISVILLE, NC	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Logan Aluminum Inc	MINNETONKA, MN	9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	J&J Cattle Co	MARENGO	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMVC Management Services	AUDUBON	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Administration Building	CEDAR RAPIDS	48 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greiner Buildings, Inc.	WASHINGTON	48 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SPP - Orange City	Orange City	492 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Orange City Area Health System	Orange City	367 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Pet	Orange City	194 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh	Orange City	184 FTE
NAT-TCR	Village of Glenview Public Works	Glenview, IL	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Linn Community Nursing Home Inc.	Linn, KS	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Milestone Employer - Southcenter, LLC	Tukwila, WA	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	EMCO of Santa Fe, LLC	Santa Fe, NM	9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jannawall, Inc.	Concord, NC	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Scrap Management of Kansas, Inc.	Park City, KS	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Homeland 539	Pryor, OK	48 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hartman Enterprises Inc	Oneida, NY	48 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. 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.