Restaurants, full service · New York

Union Square Cafe

New York, NY · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Union Square Cafe runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Restaurants, full service workplace, earning a grade C.

Union Square Cafe: 3.0 TCR = 101% of Restaurants, full service BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Square Cafe safety composite

Union Square Cafe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−2.7

2023→2024

Union Square Cafe injury rate improved

Union Square Cafe's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.4 in 2023 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.4 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · New York, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 101% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #13/27
  • PHOTO MRP Crestview
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MRP Crestview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Union Square Cafe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Square Cafe averages 3.0 TCR (101% of the Restaurants, full service BLS benchmark).

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

Union Square Cafe TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Union Square Cafe falls in its industry

1,091 Restaurants, full service establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 27 Restaurants, full service employers in New York.

Union Square Cafe (146 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Union Square Cafe
Union Square Cafe (146 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Union Square Cafe has more employees than the Restaurants, full service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 2 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · NY · New York

1,091 Restaurants, full service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 1,952 employers in New York, 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 MRP Crestview 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartville Kitchen and The Shops at Hartville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MKG OF TROUTVILLE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perkins LLC #1025 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hi-Lite Airfield Services, LLC 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolkow Braker Roofing Corp. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knowlton Technologies 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific- Clintrak Bohemia, NY 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital Corporation (MEM) 14,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospitals 12,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Sinai Medical Center 11,845 FTE
NAT-TCR Hastings 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green Holiday Inn 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McAnany Construction, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BBI Suwanee 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Portland OR 9555 NE Airport Way 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonesta Redondo Beach Marina 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Channel Islands Post Acute 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Las Vegas 146 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.

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

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