Home health care agencies · New York

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc.

Brooklyn, NY · ~1,056 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade A.

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc.: 0.8 TCR = 15% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. safety composite

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−1.8

2018→2022

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. injury rate improved

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 1.9 in 2018 to 0.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.9 · 2019=0.8 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Brooklyn, NY AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #30/180
  • PHOTO Caprock Home Health …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~1,056 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caprock Home Health Services, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. averages 0.8 TCR (15% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.8 · 2021=0.3 · 2022=0.1 · BLS 5.2

Where 1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 180 Home health care agencies employers in New York.

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. (1,056 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc.
1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. (1,056 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1st Choice Home Care Services, Inc. has more employees than the Home health care agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2021 0.3 0.3 2 0 0
2019 0.8 0.6 5 0 0
2018 1.9 0.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · NY · Brooklyn

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, 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 Caprock Home Health Services, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allegiant Homecare Suffolk County 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Signature Home Now Ocala 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Independent Home Care, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Motors Tonawanda Engine 1,052 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFK-D 1,060 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Vincent's Hospital - Westchester 1,050 FTE
STATE-SIZE SME NY 1,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR Kenworth of PA Carlisle 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GSI : Corporate 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Autotrader Florida Est 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Building Products 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8921 Lyondell Channelview PG 1,056 FTE
NAT-SIZE QVC Chesapeake, Inc. 1,056 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMW Financial Services NA, LLC 1,056 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg 1,056 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.