Employer · Alaska

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29)

Name: Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairbanks, AK · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29): 3.4 TCR = 108% of industry BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) safety composite

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.9

2017→2018

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) injury rate improved

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29)'s TCR fell 6.9 from 6.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.9 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 108% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #35/53
PHOTO Public Health Depart…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Health Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Behavioral Hea

3.5
This site

3.4
Public Health

3.4
Central Manage

3.4
Indiana Depart

3.4

What this shows Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) averages 3.4 TCR (108% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) TCR series: 2017=6.9 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) falls in its industry

267 industry establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 53 industry employers in Alaska.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) (31 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	6.9	2.3	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923120 · AK · Fairbanks

267 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 161 employers in Fairbanks, 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	Public Health Department	MERCED, CA	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Central Management Services	SPRINGFIELD, IL	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Behavioral Health	SAN BERNARDINO, CA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Indiana Department of Health - 2N	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	A & A Roofing Co., Inc.	FAIRBANKS	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bristol Site Contractors, LLC	ANCHORAGE	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Unalakleet Office	UNALAKLEET	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pacific Seafood - Seward	SEWARD	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fairbanks North Star Borough School District	Fairbanks	1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fairbanks Memorial Hospital	Fairbanks	1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tanana Chiefs Conference - All Other	Fairbanks	693 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tanana Chiefs Conference - CAIHC	Fairbanks	463 FTE
NAT-TCR	NA-US-MA-Agawam-Silver Street	Agawam, MA	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Faurecia Interior Systems	Louisville, KY	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meyer Ace Hardware - North	Petoskey, MI	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Villa West	Sherman, IL	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	MO StLBroad	St Louis, MO	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MacDonald & Owen Brookville	Brookville, PA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Big Lots Store #4292 PASADENA, CA	South Pasadena, CA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Big Lots Store #5197 Elizabeth, NJ	Elizabeth, NJ	31 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, 2017. 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.