Child day care centers · California

Early Education Center-Caruso

Los Angeles, CA · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Early Education Center-Caruso runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Child day care centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Early Education Center-Caruso: 9.3 TCR = 246% of Child day care centers BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Early Education Center-Caruso safety composite

Early Education Center-Caruso scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−8.5

2019→2023

Early Education Center-Caruso injury rate improved

Early Education Center-Caruso's TCR fell 8.5 from 12.2 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.2 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 246% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO New Horizon Academy …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Horizon Academy #1005 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Early Education Center-Caruso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Early Education Center-Caruso averages 9.3 TCR (246% of the Child day care centers BLS benchmark).

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

Early Education Center-Caruso TCR series: 2019=12.2 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Early Education Center-Caruso falls in its industry

272 Child day care centers establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Child day care centers employers in California.

Early Education Center-Caruso (28 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Early Education Center-Caruso
Early Education Center-Caruso (28 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Early Education Center-Caruso has fewer employees than the Child day care centers 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
2023 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2022 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2020 18.3 0.0 0 5 0
2019 12.2 4.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · CA · Los Angeles

272 Child day care centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 New Horizon Academy #1005 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Early Head Start Canabon 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roosevelt Boys & Girls Club 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shasta County Head Start Child Development, Inc 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steinbeck Country Produce 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Nature's Bakery - Carson City 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern States Amelia Service 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Exceed Enterprises 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100553 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairbanks Materials Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logis, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Shore Medical Center 5 Tarklin 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest - South Chicago Heights 28 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.