Child welfare services · New York

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth

Canaan, NY · ~558 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade D.

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth: 6.3 TCR = 164% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth safety composite

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth: 6.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2023

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth's TCR rose 1.6 from 6.4 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Canaan, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 164% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #18/22
  • PHOTO FirstSteps for kids-…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~558 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FirstSteps for kids-Calabasas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth averages 6.3 TCR (164% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth TCR series: 2017=6.4 · 2019=6.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.8

Where Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 22 Child welfare services employers in New York.

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth (558 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth
Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth (558 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth has more employees than the Child welfare services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 8.0 8.0 47 0 0
2022 4.5 3.9 23 0 0
2019 6.2 3.2 26 1 0
2017 6.4 3.7 27 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · NY · Canaan

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 FirstSteps for kids-Calabasas 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crossnore School & Childrens Home 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR State of Indiana - Department of Child Services 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CFLC Admin, Mental Health, Empower Youth 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Briggs & Stratton Corp.- Turf & Consumer Products 558 FTE
STATE-SIZE CookUnity, Inc 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE 86250B01 CVS RX SERVICES, INC. 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Asbestos Removal Inc. 559 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Medical Center Hartford 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Contech Piamp 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WinCup Tolleson 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Meadows Senior Living 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Torrance Refining Company LLC 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE 978 Fre1000 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE LASCO - Brownsville 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital & Medical Center 558 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2017. 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.