Restaurants, fast food · Missouri

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Springfield, MO · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tropical Smoothie Cafe runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Restaurants, fast food workplace, earning a grade D.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe: 4.1 TCR = 135% of Restaurants, fast food BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tropical Smoothie Cafe safety composite

Tropical Smoothie Cafe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−12.2

2018→2024

Tropical Smoothie Cafe injury rate improved

Tropical Smoothie Cafe's TCR fell 12.2 from 12.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Springfield, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO 1101 El Meson Of Flo…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1101 El Meson Of Florida (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tropical Smoothie Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tropical Smoothie Cafe averages 4.1 TCR (135% of the Restaurants, fast food BLS benchmark).

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

Tropical Smoothie Cafe TCR series: 2018=12.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Tropical Smoothie Cafe falls in its industry

1,014 Restaurants, fast food establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 19 Restaurants, fast food employers in Missouri.

Tropical Smoothie Cafe (19 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Tropical Smoothie Cafe
Tropical Smoothie Cafe (19 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Tropical Smoothie Cafe has fewer employees than the Restaurants, fast food median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MO · Springfield

1,014 Restaurants, fast food employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 633 employers in Springfield, MO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1101 El Meson Of Florida 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taco Bell - #4357 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davannis Inc. Coon Rapids 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnny Rocket's #261 Bally's 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms MOC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MO Rocky Point 006-0138-RP 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stokes-Mayberry Gin Co., Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE King City Seed, Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD 4,885 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime, Inc. HQ 3,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corp 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bass Pro Corporate 1,888 FTE
NAT-TCR Norcross Supply Co. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Barnesville 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mipor - Port Huron 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ms200 - Ridgeland 4.1 TCR

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, 2018. 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.