Social service agencies, family · California

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc.

Redondo Beach, CA · ~76 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Social service agencies, family workplace, earning a grade D.

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc.: 6.5 TCR = 172% of Social service agencies, family BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. safety composite

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc.: 3.6 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.0 from 3.6 in 2021 to 10.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Redondo Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 172% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #155/184
  • PHOTO Easterseals - 171 Da…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Easterseals - 171 Daniel Webster Hwy #2-Belmont (0.0 TCR gap)

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FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. averages 6.5 TCR (172% of the Social service agencies, family BLS benchmark).

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

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. TCR series: 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.8

Where FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. falls in its industry

990 Social service agencies, famil establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #155 safest of 184 Social service agencies, famil employers in California.

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FirstSteps for Kids, Inc.
FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. (76 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. has fewer employees than the Social service agencies, family median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2024 10.6 4.5 7 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 3 0 0
2022 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2021 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · CA · Redondo Beach

990 Social service agencies, family employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 64 employers in Redondo Beach, 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 Easterseals - 171 Daniel Webster Hwy #2-Belmont 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Children's Home of Poughkeepsie, NY 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph County Services 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOUSING HOPE 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ADMINISTRATION 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3181_6797 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Labor,Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fujishige Farms, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGSP-K477 10,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-K477 9,046 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000780 810 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ambitions California Inc 403 FTE
NAT-TCR Piazza Produce 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Residential and Commercial Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Moncks Corner Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux Chief Peculiar 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lyft TBS Warehouse DCA 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hbs - Kirkland Components 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carter Fence Company Inc. 76 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.