Social service agencies, family · California

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc.

Calabasas, CA · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. runs at 333% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Social service agencies, family workplace, earning a grade F.

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc.: 12.7 TCR = 333% of Social service agencies, family BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. safety composite

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 Ventura County, Inc.: 10.8 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.8 from 10.8 in 2023 to 14.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Calabasas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 333% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #178/184
  • PHOTO Gulf Coast Teaching …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gulf Coast Teaching Family Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. averages 12.7 TCR (333% 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 Ventura County, Inc. TCR series: 2023=10.8 · 2024=14.6 · BLS 3.8

Where FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. falls in its industry

990 Social service agencies, famil establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #178 safest of 184 Social service agencies, famil employers in California.

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 Ventura County, Inc.
FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

FirstSteps for Kids Ventura County, 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 14.6 9.1 8 0 0
2023 10.8 10.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · CA · Calabasas

990 Social service agencies, family employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Calabasas, 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 Gulf Coast Teaching Family Services 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crestwood Behavioral Health 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashuelot Valley Academy 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 211 Galvin 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JJJ HARVESTING 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&A - Huron - Farm 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacifc International Marketing 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilgenburg Greenhouses 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Calabasas 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR HQ East 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty Professional 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALE USA, Inc 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Stern-Williams Products LLC 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jorgensen Steel Machining & Fabrication Inc 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Denwt - New Castle 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hackney Furniture 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Braintree Facility 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Randall Bearings, Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain View Retirement village 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodland Elementary School 80 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.