Food Service Contractors · District of Columbia

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn

Washington, DC · ~294 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn: 1.5 TCR = 50% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn safety composite

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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 Howard University Blackburn: 0.7 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.7 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Washington, DC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 50% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #32/87
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT XAVIER UNI…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~294 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT XAVIER UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn averages 1.5 TCR (50% 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 Howard University Blackburn TCR series: 2022=0.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to District of Columbia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 87 Food Service Contractors employers in District of Columbia.

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn (294 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn
Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn (294 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a lower 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 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2023 2.2 0.5 4 0 0
2022 0.7 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · DC · Washington

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 793 rated employers in District of Columbia with headcount on file · 748 employers in Washington, DC · 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WSC SAFB Food Service DH #1320 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY FACI 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPS-NASC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3500 WESTERN BUS FACILITY 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Bus Facility 292 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mandarin Oriental, Washington DC 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's National Medical Center 7,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Washington Hospital Center 7,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Georgetown University Hospital 4,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customs and Border Protection - Headquarters 3,601 FTE
NAT-TCR 5305 - T05cos-Crad-Cos Co 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Benson 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Forrest Solutions, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Communications Construction, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clarinda Regional Health Center 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Center 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelbud 294 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.