Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential · Florida

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street

Sarasota, FL · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential workplace, earning a grade D.

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street: 5.5 TCR = 146% of Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street safety composite

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street: 5.5 → 59.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 59.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.67× in 2019

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street's TCR rose 53.7 from 5.5 in 2018 to 59.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Sarasota, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 146% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #35/49
  • PHOTO Nueva Vista Sacramento
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nueva Vista Sacramento (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street averages 5.5 TCR (146% of the Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential BLS benchmark).

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

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street TCR series: 2018=5.5 · 2019=59.3 · BLS 3.8

Where First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street falls in its industry

1,165 Drug addiction rehabilitation establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 49 Drug addiction rehabilitation employers in Florida.

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street (65 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street
First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street (65 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

First Step of Sarasota, Inc.-18th Street has more employees than the Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities 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
2019 59.3 14.8 4 0 0
2018 5.5 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · FL · Sarasota

1,165 Drug addiction rehabilitation facilities (except licensed hospitals), residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 504 employers in Sarasota, FL · 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 Nueva Vista Sacramento 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Assistance Recovery Enterprise 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Chester House 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Project Network 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mascotte 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCR Crist Plant 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRV-Riviera Plant 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cape Canaveral Plant 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beneva Lakes 3,238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Butterfly- Lakewood Ranch 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Connexis Physicians 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Treasures Thrift Shop II 2,476 FTE
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Erie 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Transportation 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR GLC Merrillville 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Board of Child Care- WV Falling Waters 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yard 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro State Fire dba Impact Fire Services (Denver) 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE 621 - Tulsa 65 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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