Child day care services · Kansas

Child Start, Inc

Wichita, KS · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Child Start, Inc runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Child day care services workplace, earning a grade F.

Child Start, Inc: 9.9 TCR = 261% of Child day care services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Child Start, Inc safety composite

Child Start, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Child Start, Inc: 8.2 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2018

Child Start, Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 8.2 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 261% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO 085027 CDLC OF MAPLE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 085027 CDLC OF MAPLE GROVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Child Start, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Child Start, Inc averages 9.9 TCR (261% of the Child day care services BLS benchmark).

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

Child Start, Inc TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2018=11.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Child Start, Inc falls in its industry

272 Child day care services establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Child Start, Inc (202 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Child Start, Inc
Child Start, Inc (202 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Child Start, Inc has more employees than the Child day care services median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 11.7 1.8 20 0 0
2016 8.2 1.2 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · KS · Wichita

272 Child day care services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 085027 CDLC OF MAPLE GROVE 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizon Academy #60 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enfield Child Development Center and Family Resources 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tank Connection 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00-1550 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manko Window Systems, Inc. - Manhattan 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR B-X Mansfield LLC 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0019 - Santa Rosa, Ca 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0681 - Bakersfield South, Ca 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Double L Cattle Company 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Longmont-Sunset 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moncure Plywood - WP 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Controls San Antonio Chillers 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Impresa Aerospace 202 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: 2018, 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.