Employer · Alaska

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16)

Name: Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Anchorage, AK · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.9
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16): 4.9 TCR = 152% of industry BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) safety composite

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16): 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2021

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16)'s TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 9.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923120 · Anchorage, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 152% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #43/53
PHOTO Health Department
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Health Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) averages 4.9 TCR (152% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=9.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) falls in its industry

267 industry establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 53 industry employers in Alaska.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) (32 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Dept. of Health & Social Services (16) has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2021	9.7	1.9	3	2	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923120 · AK · Anchorage

267 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 704 employers in Anchorage, AK · 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	Health Department	WATERLOO, IA	4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dept. of Health & Social Services (54)	KENAI, AK	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Yuma County Health District	YUMA, AZ	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	San Joaquin County Public Health	STOCKTON, CA	4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Aurora Energy Power Plant	FAIRBANKS	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Aurora Energy, LLC	FAIRBANKS	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Silver Mountain Construction Alaska	WASILLA	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Alaska Resource Group LLC	TALKEETNA	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2252-00000198	Anchorage	4,453 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AK10 PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CTR-ANCHORAGE	Anchorage	2,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Alaska Native Medical Center	Anchorage	2,329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GCI Communication Corp.	Anchorage	1,935 FTE
NAT-TCR	A.R.E. - Dundee, OH	Dundee, OH	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lakeside Industries (080)	Longview, WA	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hla Albany, Ny	Albany, NY	4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buford Plant	Buford, GA	4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	034736-Litchfield Pk Po	Litchfield Park, AZ	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Peterson Meadows	Rockford, IL	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Archer-Manhattan	New York, NY	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	212262-De Ridder Po	Deridder, LA	32 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: 2021, 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.