Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages) · California

Creative Alternatives, Inc.

Turlock, CA · ~215 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creative Alternatives, Inc. runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages) workplace, earning a grade F.

Creative Alternatives, Inc.: 15.7 TCR = 412% of Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages) BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creative Alternatives, Inc. safety composite

Creative Alternatives, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2017→2023

Creative Alternatives, Inc. injury rate improved

Creative Alternatives, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.8 from 9.9 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 34.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=13.2 · 2022=34.2 · 2023=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623990 · Turlock, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 412% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #89/91
  • PHOTO 57th Avenue
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 57th Avenue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creative Alternatives, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creative Alternatives, Inc. averages 15.7 TCR (412% of the Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages) BLS benchmark).

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

Creative Alternatives, Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=13.2 · 2022=34.2 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Creative Alternatives, Inc. falls in its industry

560 Boys' and girls' residential f establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 91 Boys' and girls' residential f employers in California.

Creative Alternatives, Inc. (215 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Creative Alternatives, Inc.
Creative Alternatives, Inc. (215 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Creative Alternatives, Inc. has more employees than the Boys' and girls' residential facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2023 7.2 3.1 6 1 0
2022 34.2 11.9 15 28 0
2020 13.2 8.3 21 9 0
2019 13.7 9.8 35 0 0
2017 9.9 5.3 21 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623990 · CA · Turlock

560 Boys' and girls' residential facilities (e.g., homes, ranches, villages) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 171 employers in Turlock, CA · 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 57th Avenue 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCarthy Court 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4287_10576 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHNK Burlington Residential Campus 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Camarillo 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-Eastside 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE 622 SAN MARCOS 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE YC Trucking 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-027 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-209 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MCE1 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 349 779 FTE
NAT-TCR Formall Inc 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR R.E. Garrison Trucking, Inc. 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR J&B Group St Michael 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 230415-Bal-Highlandtown Sta 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springs Window Fashions - Field Sales 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Carrier Company, LLC 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grafton 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. 215 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.