Employer · Alaska

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59)

Name: Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ketchikan, AK · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59): 3.5 TCR = 93% of industry BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) safety composite

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 (59): 0.0 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59)'s TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 10.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Ketchikan, AK AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 93% of ind

DART 10.6 DART
RANK #3/7
PHOTO Orchard at Brookhave…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orchard at Brookhaven II (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) averages 3.5 TCR (93% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=10.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) falls in its industry

6,510 industry establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 industry employers in Alaska.

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) (40 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Dept. of Health & Social Services (59) has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2021	10.6	10.6	4
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · AK · Ketchikan

6,510 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 34 employers in Ketchikan, 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	Orchard at Brookhaven II	ATLANTA, GA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brookdale Meridian AL	HASLETT, MI	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cass Street	LA CROSSE, WI	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	HSL 3, LLC	PORT WASHINGTON, WI	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AVEC Village Operations	ANCHORAGE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Friend Contractors	KODIAK	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Safway Services, LLC - Fairbanks	FAIRBANKS	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IFP-Kenai	KENAI	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ketchikan Medical Center	Ketchikan	488 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (85)	Ketchikan	389 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vigor Industrial	Ketchikan	144 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2710	Ketchikan	139 FTE
NAT-TCR	Morgal Machine Tool	Springfield, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Goodwill Maple Ave	Zanesville, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kirschenmann Farms, Inc	Bakersfield, CA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jc-Duggan Inc, India Warehouse Corp	Brooklyn, NY	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	013410-Gardendale Po	Gardendale, AL	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	334 - Trash Inc.	Whitestown, IN	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Landscape Construction	Junction City, OR	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Big Creek	Roswell, GA	40 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, 2019, 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.