OBERLIN COLLEGE**
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OBERLIN, OH | Food Service
~64 avg employees | 4 years of OSHA data
OBERLIN COLLEGE** has an average TCR of 16.4, which is 546% of the industry average (3.0) for Food Service. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for OBERLIN COLLEGE**
OBERLIN COLLEGE** operates an establishment with approximately 64 full-time equivalent workers in OBERLIN, OH, classified under the Food Service industry (NAICS 722310). Across 4 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 25 recordable injuries, 2 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 16.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.0 for Food Service, OBERLIN COLLEGE**'s workforce experiences 546% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 4 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating OBERLIN COLLEGE** as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from OBERLIN COLLEGE**'s own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 722310 — Food Service.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 90,520 hours worked = 8.84 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| OBERLIN COLLEGE** (this establishment) | 16.37 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Cafeteria food services contractors (e.g., government office cafeterias, hospital cafeterias, school cafeterias) industry avg | 3.00 | BLS IIF, NAICS 722310 |
| Ohio state avg (all industries) | 31.77 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by OBERLIN COLLEGE** to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 12 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26.5 | 8.8 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 17.7 | 13.2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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