Food Service Contractors · Iowa

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining

Decorah, IA · ~145 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining: 6.9 TCR = 229% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining safety composite

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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 Luther College Resident Dining: 0.0 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining's TCR rose 13.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Decorah, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 229% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #33/44
  • PHOTO 200441900 LUCAS COUN…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 200441900 LUCAS COUNTY JAIL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining averages 6.9 TCR (229% 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 Luther College Resident Dining TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #33 safest of 44 Food Service Contractors employers in Iowa.

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining (145 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Luther College Resident Dining
Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining (145 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at Luther College Resident Dining 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 13.8 5.5 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Decorah

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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 200441900 LUCAS COUNTY JAIL 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Picks Cafe - North Middlesex Regional 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOOGLE GPAK CATERING 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legends - Sacramento Kings 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE D. C. Taylor Co Corporate 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera Iowa 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Iowa City 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2526 - Cedar Falls 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luther College 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Human Services 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinnMed 557 FTE
NAT-TCR 23-NIP 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerrity's Supermarkets, Keyser Ave 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenway Equipment Marion 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4076 Ofa58 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Palms Care Center 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-San Diego 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southfield Westin 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Navitor Labelworks - 0021 145 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.