Group foster homes for children · Texas

Helping Hand Home for Children

Austin, TX · ~120 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helping Hand Home for Children runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Group foster homes for children workplace, earning a grade F.

Helping Hand Home for Children: 10.3 TCR = 271% of Group foster homes for children BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helping Hand Home for Children safety composite

Helping Hand Home for Children scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Helping Hand Home for Children: 7.9 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2024

Helping Hand Home for Children's TCR rose 6.3 from 7.9 in 2017 to 14.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623990 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 271% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #27/33
  • PHOTO Yoder
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 59 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yoder (0.0 TCR gap)

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Helping Hand Home for Children in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helping Hand Home for Children averages 10.3 TCR (271% of the Group foster homes for children BLS benchmark).

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

Helping Hand Home for Children TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=15.6 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Helping Hand Home for Children falls in its industry

560 Group foster homes for childre establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 33 Group foster homes for childre employers in Texas.

Helping Hand Home for Children (120 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Helping Hand Home for Children
Helping Hand Home for Children (120 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Helping Hand Home for Children has more employees than the Group foster homes for children median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 14.2 3.5 16 0 0
2023 6.4 0.9 7 0 0
2022 7.3 3.7 8 0 0
2018 15.6 1.6 19 0 0
2017 7.9 6.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623990 · TX · Austin

560 Group foster homes for children employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 Yoder 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CNS BFL Clinic/Corporate Admin/Marketing 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Directions 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wedgwood Christian Services - Main 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Saba Pecan, LP 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Savanna Drilling LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Livingston Branch 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fritcher Construction Services 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Valencia Hills Healthcare and Rehab Center 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ONT-M 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lahey Hamilton 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheridan Sheet Metal Co. 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maplewood at Orange 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker West, LLC 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Valley 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agoura 120 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.