Home health agencies · Washington
Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice
Clarkston, WA · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 20.9
- Avg TCR
- 5.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice runs at 403% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 20.9
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 5.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 13
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice's OSHA Total Case Rate of 20.9 to the Home health agencies BLS benchmark of 5.2 (403% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 5.2 industry benchmark.
Where Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice falls in its industry
4,185 Home health agencies establishmentsSafer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.
Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 73 Home health agencies employers in Washington.
Trend analysis for Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice
Between 2020 and 2022, Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice's Total Case Rate worsened from 13.9 to 28.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 101% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 13.9, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 28.0, a spread of 14.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice recorded 13 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 13 injuries, 11 illnesses shown on this page for Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 621610 - Home health agencies.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
17 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 121,572 hours worked = 27.97 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice (this establishment) | 20.95 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Home health agencies industry avg | 5.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 621610 |
| Washington state avg (all industries) | 6.20 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2022: 17 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 8 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 7 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 28.0 | 28.0 | 9 | 8 | 0 |
| 2020 | 13.9 | 13.9 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice's reported OSHA injury record versus its Home health agencies peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 403% of the Home health agencies benchmark, Alpowa Healthcare Inc. dba Elite Home Health & Hospice reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Home health agencies sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.