Home health care agencies · Massachusetts

Alternative Supports Inc

Waltham, MA · ~134 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alternative Supports Inc runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade A.

Alternative Supports Inc: 2.2 TCR = 42% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alternative Supports Inc safety composite

Alternative Supports Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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 Supports Inc: 1.5 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Alternative Supports Inc's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Waltham, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #24/159
  • PHOTO 0920 - HPL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0920 - HPL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alternative Supports Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alternative Supports Inc averages 2.2 TCR (42% 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 Supports Inc TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 5.2

Where Alternative Supports Inc falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 159 Home health care agencies employers in Massachusetts.

Alternative Supports Inc (134 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Supports Inc
Alternative Supports Inc (134 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Alternative Supports 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
2024 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2023 3.5 1.7 4 0 0
2022 2.9 2.2 4 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · MA · Waltham

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 118 employers in Waltham, MA · 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 0920 - HPL 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0919 - HLE 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Home Care Inc. - Hillborough 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles Service and Equipment 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Clear Plumbing & Heating 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brewster Home Fashions, LLC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Bouchard's Auto Sales, Inc 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR RESERVOIR WOODS (MA42) 2,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR 170 Data Drive Work Location-MAAV 1,985 FTE
CITY-NEAR RESERVOIR WOODS-MA42 1,736 FTE
CITY-NEAR Partners Home Care Inc 786 FTE
NAT-TCR Feazel Electrical Contracting Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MINNESOTA 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CLS-CPIS-CHARLESTON,SC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Futures Recovery Healthcare 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE MARSA Inc. 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Machining 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSW Premier 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tedd Wood 134 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, 2022, 2021, 2016. 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.