Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) · Montana

Alternatives, Inc.

Name: Alternatives, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Billings, MT · ~179 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Alternatives, Inc. runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) workplace, earning a grade A.

Alternatives, Inc.: 1.7 TCR = 46% of Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alternatives, Inc. safety composite

Alternatives, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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).

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Alternatives, Inc.: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Alternatives, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 0.6 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Billings, MT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 46% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO California Children …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Children Services Med Therapy Unit (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Alternatives, Inc. averages 1.7 TCR (46% of the Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) BLS benchmark).

Alternatives, Inc. TCR series: 2020=0.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Alternatives, Inc. falls in its industry

1,165 Halfway houses, substance abus establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Halfway houses, substance abus employers in Montana.

Alternatives, Inc. (179 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Alternatives, Inc. has more employees than the Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., a median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024	1.3	1.3	2
2023	3.3	2.7	5
2020	0.6	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · MT · Billings

1,165 Halfway houses, substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	California Children Services Med Therapy Unit	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chestnut Health Systems MLK	BLOOMINGTON, IL	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CRC	GRANTS PASS, OR	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Center City	CENTER CITY, MN	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Torgerson's-Great Falls	GREAT FALLS	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0171 - Billings West	BILLINGS	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0319 LOWE S OF BILLINGS MT.	BILLINGS	177 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bozeman Clinic and Surgery Center	BOZEMAN	177 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Billings Clinic Hospital	Billings	2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Vincent Healthcare	Billings	1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Billings Clinic Downtown Campus	Billings	1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. John's Lutheran Ministries	Billings	651 FTE
NAT-TCR	NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-2065 KEYSTONE PACIFIC PKWY	Patterson, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Imiloa Astronomy Center of HI	Hilo, HI	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Houston 10168	Houston, TX	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	STR0017	Winston-Salem, NC	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mimus - Muskegon	Muskegon, MI	179 FTE
NAT-SIZE	William F. Green State Veterans Home	Bay Minette, AL	179 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC	Gramercy, LA	179 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Andrew Residence	Minneapolis, MN	179 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, 2020. 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.