Food Service Contractors · Iowa

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room

Storm Lake, IA · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room: 7.4 TCR = 246% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room safety composite

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room: 2.1 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room's TCR rose 10.6 from 2.1 in 2023 to 12.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #34/44
  • PHOTO Denison Curtis Hall
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denison Curtis Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room averages 7.4 TCR (246% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=12.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 44 Food Service Contractors employers in Iowa.

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room (81 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room
Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room (81 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Buena Vista Univ Dining Room has more employees than the Food Service Contractors 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
2024 12.7 0.0 1 1 0
2023 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Storm Lake

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm Lake, IA · 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 Denison Curtis Hall 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 028/McMurry University 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital - FNS 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4013 Lebanon Valley College 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Durant 1 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Midwest - Cedar Rapids 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ottumwa Generating Station 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Maintenance / Streets 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Plant 2,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Nutrivo, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SFO 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin County Government 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Brien Orchards, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dyno Nobel 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magic Plastics 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Alexandria 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton History 81 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. 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.