Food Service Contractors · New York

Sodexo at University of Buffalo

Buffalo, NY · ~36 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sodexo at University of Buffalo runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Sodexo at University of Buffalo: 2.5 TCR = 84% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sodexo at University of Buffalo safety composite

Sodexo at University of Buffalo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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 University of Buffalo: 5.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sodexo at University of Buffalo's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.0 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #216/524
  • PHOTO Wabash Great Hall
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wabash Great Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sodexo at University of Buffalo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sodexo at University of Buffalo averages 2.5 TCR (84% 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 University of Buffalo TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Sodexo at University of Buffalo falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #216 safest of 524 Food Service Contractors employers in New York.

Sodexo at University of Buffalo (36 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 University of Buffalo
Sodexo at University of Buffalo (36 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sodexo at University of Buffalo has fewer 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 6.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · NY · Buffalo

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 Wabash Great Hall 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Univ of Evansville Res Dining 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNCC SOVI DINING 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clio Area School * 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CY Farms, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry W. Agle and Sons, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Farms, LLC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preble Hill Farms LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR h&m USA Dies 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Polymer Science 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GLOCK Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LaGrou DesPlaines 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Price Rite Store 338 Westfield 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moss Landing Power Company LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Custom Processing 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belson Steel Center Scrap, Inc. 36 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.