Child guidance agencies · California

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek, CA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Child guidance agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek: 7.6 TCR = 199% of Child guidance agencies BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek safety composite

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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-Walnut Creek: 0.0 → 15.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2019

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek's TCR rose 15.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 15.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Walnut Creek, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 15.2 DART
  • RANK #43/53
  • PHOTO Lutheran Child and F…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lutheran Child and Family Services - Mount Vernon (0.0 TCR gap)

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FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek averages 7.6 TCR (199% of the Child guidance agencies BLS benchmark).

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

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=15.2 · BLS 3.8

Where FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek falls in its industry

328 Child guidance agencies establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 53 Child guidance agencies employers in California.

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek (47 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek
FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek (47 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

FirstSteps for kids-Walnut Creek has fewer employees than the Child guidance agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 15.2 15.2 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · CA · Walnut Creek

328 Child guidance agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 119 employers in Walnut Creek, 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 Lutheran Child and Family Services - Mount Vernon 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW ALTERNATIVES, INC - TBS 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crisis Nursery 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW ALTERNATIVES, INC - CVSP 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 522 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 523 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121551 2,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821551 WALNUT CREEK HOSPITAL 1,924 FTE
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Ft Walton Beach 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Autoneum North America - Jeffersonville IN 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Marinemax East, Inc.-Stu 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NDX Affinity 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Drainage Systems Inc.--Brazil 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schuber Mitchell Homes 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis Downtown 47 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.

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

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