Home health care agencies · Missouri

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine

Springfield, MO · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine: 5.1 TCR = 98% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine safety composite

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine: 3.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.8 in 2018 to 6.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Springfield, MO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #46/75
  • PHOTO HOME HEALTH CARE AND…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOSPICE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine averages 5.1 TCR (98% 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

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=6.4 · BLS 5.2

Where Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 75 Home health care agencies employers in Missouri.

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine (34 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine
Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine (34 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Alternative Care of the Ozarks Sunshine has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a higher 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
2019 6.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MO · Springfield

3,635 Home health care agencies 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOSPICE 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0354 - WRV 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temecula - CA 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR REA 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grundy Electric Cooperative Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Association of Missouri Electrical Cooperatives 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Peters Service Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 34 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 Staybridge Suites 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Spring & Stamping, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4600 Los Angeles, CA 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Henderson Health Care Services 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARDx San Diego Mira Mesa 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Ceilings 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recommunity Morris 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maag Automatik, Inc. 34 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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