Buffet eating places · Florida

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City

Lake City, FL · ~67 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buffet eating places workplace, earning a grade F.

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City: 8.1 TCR = 271% of Buffet eating places BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City safety composite

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2016→2017

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City injury rate improved

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City's TCR fell 3.9 from 10.1 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722514 · Lake City, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 271% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO Shady Maple Smorgasb…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shady Maple Smorgasbord (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City averages 8.1 TCR (271% of the Buffet eating places BLS benchmark).

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

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=6.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City falls in its industry

31 Buffet eating places establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City (67 employees, TCR 8.1) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 11 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Golden Corral #778Golden Corral 2605JBLM - McChord Food ServicesShady Maple SmorgasbordGolden Corral 2464Bedford CountySchools Bedford County School Food SvcsGolden Corral 584Pinnacle ClubGolden Corral 590Golden Corral 751Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City
Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City (67 employees, TCR 8.1) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Ole Times Country Buffet - Lake City has more employees than the Buffet eating places median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2017 6.2 0.0 3 0 0
2016 10.1 4.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722514 · FL · Lake City

31 Buffet eating places employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 115 employers in Lake City, FL · 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 Shady Maple Smorgasbord 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Corral 584 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0000000805 SCHOOLS: FOOD SERVICE 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ole Times Country Buffet - Brunswick 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pompano Beach Service Center 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-County Electric Cooperative 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Florida Constructors, LLC-Miami 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Lake City Hospital 663 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAECO Airframe Services - Lake City 605 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAECO Americas - LCQ 562 FTE
NAT-TCR Ottawa (Ksott) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian Lakes Apartments 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion Strattanville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Transfer Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Strafford Inc 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Republic LLC 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Holiday Inn 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE HBSHSENC20 67 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: 2017, 2016. 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.